Yahoo News Netflix CEO celebrates 100 million subscribers
Netflix has gone from strength to strength since its beginnings as a company posting DVDs to people in the late 1990s.
So much so that it now has 100 million people paying monthly to watch things through its service – which has been growing since Netflix moved into the streaming market over a decade ago.
Pulling in millions a month might lead some people to eat gold-leaf caviar off plates made from gemstones – but Netflix's CEO keeps things a little more real.
Upon reaching that massive milestone of 100 million subscribers, Reed Hastings went out to a Denny's fast food chain to buy a steak to eat in solitude, no gold leaf in sight.
"Celebrating 100m, members the same way I did 1m: a steak alone at Denny's. #superstitious", reads the caption on his Facebook post from Friday (April 21).
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix announced that it was very close to approaching the milestone in an earnings call last Monday (April 17), with 98.7 million people on the books.
Within the company's earnings call were some fascinating figures, including news that "since the launch of The Ridiculous 6, Netflix members have spent more than half a billion hours enjoying the films of Adam Sandler".
Think what else could have been achieved for mankind in that collected time.
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