Marc Randolph Quotes

Marc Randolph
Marc Randolph
American Businessman
Born: Apr 29, 1958
Business Good People Will Work You
Don't move to L.A to become an actress - you'll just be a waitress. Don't drive to Nashville to become a country music star - you'll just end up playing empty honky-tonks at two in the afternoon on a Tuesday. Marc Randolph
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Some of my fondest memories of the early years of Netflix have to do with our efforts to figure out the most efficient, effective, and fast methods to get DVDs to people all over the country. Marc Randolph
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When an opportunity comes knocking, you don't necessarily have to open your door. But you owe it to yourself to at least look through the keyhole. Marc Randolph
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Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity. Marc Randolph
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As you get older, if you're lucky, you realize two things: what you like, but also what you're good at. Marc Randolph
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Luck was a huge part of the Netflix story. Marc Randolph
Luck Netflix Part Huge Huge Part Story
At Netflix, we realized that we weren't in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business with the guy sitting at home trying to find a DVD to watch. If we had the courage to focus on him, everyone - movie studios, electronics companies, Netflix itself - won. Marc Randolph
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Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo, to embrace what the future is. Marc Randolph
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I certainly don't only watch Netflix. I enjoy the fact there is multiple companies producing content. I think it's great for consumers. Marc Randolph
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In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into one of the world's most successful companies. Marc Randolph
Work World Will Startups Insider Give Never Look Most Likely Readers How Least Grew Successful Companies
The most powerful step that anyone can take to turn their dreams into reality is a simple one. You just need to start. Marc Randolph
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It was a long, circuitous route from my mom's real estate business to Netflix. It didn't happen overnight. Or in a year. Or even in ten years. But it happened. Marc Randolph
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That became the Netflix culture: radical honesty. Marc Randolph
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No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it. Marc Randolph
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Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one. Marc Randolph
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I wanted to use my story of starting Netflix - the whole thing, warts and all - to show how a dream could make it from the inside of one's head out into the real world. Marc Randolph
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In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up there alongside optimism as an entrepreneur's most valuable weapon. Marc Randolph
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When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan, gently blowing across a pair of identical blue shirts he'd hung on a water pipe behind his desk. Marc Randolph
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The real story of Netflix is complicated: an epic tale full of struggle, disappointment, drama, humor, and achievement. Marc Randolph
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I still have long lists of things that I want to accomplish every day. Marc Randolph
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Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they are suddenly scared to communicate bad news out of some mistaken feeling of politeness or political correctness. Marc Randolph
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People are always advised to follow your dreams, but in 'That Will Never Work' I show them how! Marc Randolph
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Certainly when I was starting, it required being in a community where, when you tried to rent a building, and they looked at your balance sheet and saw it was negative, that didn't scare them away. Marc Randolph
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When we were kicking around the idea for Netflix in 1997, proving out an idea was expensive and labor-intensive. There was no Squarespace, no cloud. If you wanted a website, you had to build it from scratch. If you wanted an online store, you had to completely design it yourself. Marc Randolph
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Usually, when I give talks, I'm 100% there, 100% present. Marc Randolph
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When a company gets bigger, when it begins to bring on employees, it naturally goes through this tendency of wanting to control, of wanting to build process - essentially to say not every one of our customers or employees has great judgment. Marc Randolph
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