Plex
Movie & TV streaming platform
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- Digital Media
- Media
- Los Gatos, CA
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Company mission
To create a global community for streaming content that people can depend on to easily discover, experience, and share all of the entertainment that matters to them.
49% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Plex is a streaming media platform aiming to simplify how users access entertainment. As well as offering its own deep library of movies, series, and live TV channels, it has expanded its product by turning into a single interface for paid subscription services. So, if a user subscribes to Netflix, Apple TV, and Amazon Prime Video, for example, they can search and access content from all these services in one place on Plex.
Given the competition in the subscription streaming services market, as well as the common user pain points such as time waste while searching, this so-called “Discover” feature is seeing the company’s popularity soar. The fact that Plex is the first streaming company to do this serves as quite an advantage, but it may not be long until others follow suit.
Plex has been profitable since 2014, five years after the company’s launch, and has invested more recent funding into mass scaling. The rollout hasn’t been without its UX complaints, but if the company can smooth out these issues as it scales, it could enjoy a period of even more significant growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Charitable Giving/Matching
- Employees can receive a complimentary Calm app subscription
- Stock Options
- Competitive Health Benefits & Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
- 4 weeks of leave for the loss of a loved one
- $125 each month toward a range of activities encouraging both physical and mental health
- 100% Remote & Global
- Flexible PTO & Fridays!
- Fun Travel to Amazing Places
- Up to 16 weeks maternity leave/birthing parent leave plus 4 weeks part-time hours at full pay in a step-in program afterwards which allows returning members to ease back into their job
- Up to 6 weeks parental leave (non-birthing parents) which includes surrogacy and adoption
- Hardware Stipend up to $4000
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2024
$40m
SERIES C
Feb 2022
$20m
LATE VC
Total funding: $86m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Scott Olechowski
(Co-Founder & CPO)Prior to co-founding Plex in 2009, Scott was a Manager of Business Development at Cisco for 13 years and a VP of Business Development at PostX for 6 years.
Keith Valory
(CEO, President & Board Member)Prior to joining Plex in 2013, Keith was the COO at Bracket Computing. Before that, they spent 5 years at Cisco working in Product Management and Strategy & Business Development.