Netflix's initial business model included DVD sales and rental by mail, but Hastings abandoned the sales about a year after the company's founding to focus on the initial DVD rental business. Today, the company produces and distributes content from countries all over the globe. Netflix is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The company also has offices in Brazil, the Netherlands, India, Japan, and South Korea. It is available worldwide except in the following: mainland China (due to local restrictions), Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Crimea (due to U.S. As of April 2020, Netflix had over 182 million paid subscriptions worldwide, including 69 million in the United States. The company's primary business is its subscription-based streaming service which offers online streaming of a library of films and television programs, including those produced in-house. is an American media-services provider and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California.
