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Roku was founded in October 2002 as a limited liability company (LLC), [23] by ReplayTV founder Anthony Wood. Roku (六), meaning "six" in the Japanese language, represented the fact that Roku was the sixth company Wood started. [24]
Roku was founded by Anthony Wood in 2002; he had previously founded ReplayTV, a DVR company that competed with TiVo. [4] After ReplayTV's failure, Wood worked for a while at Netflix. In 2007, Wood's company began working with Netflix on Project:Griffin, a set-top box to allow Netflix users to stream Netflix content to their TVs. [4]
Anthony J. Wood (born December 4, 1965) is an English-born American billionaire businessman who is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Roku, Inc. [1] [2] [3] In April 2021, he owned 15% stake in Roku, and had a net worth of US$7.2 billion.
Roku reported 85.5 million streaming households in the third quarter, a 13% year-over-year increase. The volume of streaming hours recorded on Roku-powered devices rose by 20% over the same span ...
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The surge in political ad spending and Roku's growing subscriber base have boosted its advertising revenue and audience reach, driving overall growth. Roku's quarterly revenue beats estimates on ...
The Roku Channel was launched in September 2017 as a free, ad-supported streaming television service ("FAST"), [1] [13] available to viewers in the U.S. [14] Roku's CEO Anthony Wood stated in the same month that the channel was a "way for content owners to publish their content on Roku without writing an app". [15]
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