You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Risk taking in business is one thing. Risk taking in your personal safety is a different thing. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Netflix was my sixth start-up, and that point I decided I didn't have it in me to start another company. At least… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
It was a long, circuitous route from my mom's real estate business to Netflix. It didn't happen overnight. Or in a year.… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
The lessons I learned starting Netflix - and over a lifetime of entrepreneurship - are broadly applicable to anyone with a dream. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
In the years after I left Netflix, the company I co-founded, I didn't want to puff myself up or tear anyone else… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
No one has ever asked me to give a graduation speech. But in my years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs, many of… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
That Will Never Work' is my chance to share all the secrets I've accumulated in a 40 years career as a entrepreneur… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
In fact, I'm happy to go on record as saying that the ability to create a reality distortion field is right up… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Long story short: I didn't start out thinking I'd be a tech entrepreneur. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
In a two-sided market, focusing on the customer will increase a business's ability to extract value from the supply side. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
At Netflix, we realized that we weren't in business with the Toshibas and the Sonys of the world. We were in business… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
I tell aspiring entrepreneurs all the time: Validate your idea locally. Get some experience under your belt. Prove your idea has legs… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
That Will Never Work' is the untold story of Netflix. It's how a handful of people, with no experience in the video… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
As entrepreneurs, or artists, or just people with dreams, the worst thing you can do is get so caught up in planning… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
I don't know if there's a genetic marker for entrepreneurship. But if there is, it's most likely not a genius for planning.… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
When entrepreneurs talk about their success, they rarely talk about luck. I think that's because most of them think the concept denigrates… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
When a company gets bigger, when it begins to bring on employees, it naturally goes through this tendency of wanting to control,… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
I came from years and years in the direct marketing industry where everything is layered. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Now, I love a good factory tour. Drop me into a bottling plant, an automotive assembly line, or a jellybean factory, and I'm happy… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
There's nothing worse than the guy who at the party goes, 'Oh, I had that idea two years ago.' Well, then, why didn't you… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I want to preserve the old ways just for the sake of saying, 'I don't believe in change.' — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
That Will Never Work' is my chance to share all the secrets I've accumulated in a 40 years career as a entrepreneur - secrets… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
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… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
As you get older, if you're lucky, you realize two things: what you like, but also what you're good at. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
