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Roku, Inc. (/ ˈ r oʊ k uː / ROH-koo) [4] is an American technology company. [5] [6] Founded in 2002 by Anthony Wood, it produces Roku-branded streaming players and TVs, distributes streaming services and operates an ad business on its platform. Roku is the U.S. market leader in streaming video distribution, [7] [8] [9] reaching 145 million ...
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.
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]
Carl Sassenrath (born 1957 in California) is an architect of operating systems and computer languages.He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, [1] and he is the designer of the REBOL computer language, REBOL/IOS collaboration environment, the Safeworlds AltME private messaging system, and other products.
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Picasa was a cross-platform image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, integrated with a now defunct photo-sharing website, originally created by a company named Lifescape [3] (which at that time was incubated by Idealab) in 2002. [4] "
The Roku OS is the most popular TV operating system in the U.S., reaching an estimated 90 million households as of 2025. [4] [5] [6] The Roku OS works as a streaming platform that hosts both "free" and paid streaming channels through its graphical user interface. [7] [8] It has been reported to be easy to use and powerful.