Netflix is famous for its corporate culture, which rightly emphasizes directness and personal responsibility. — Marc Randolph Corporate Copy Share Image
You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do. — Marc Randolph Business 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 Believe Copy Share Image
Risk taking in business is one thing. Risk taking in your personal safety is a different thing. — Marc Randolph Business Copy Share Image
Pitching a concept well is certainly important, but ultimately you have to build it. — Marc Randolph Build Copy Share Image
I came from years and years in the direct marketing industry where everything is layered. — Marc Randolph Everything Copy Share Image
Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix. — Marc Randolph Always Copy Share Image
When someone uses 'low eight figures,' that means barely eight figures. — Marc Randolph Eight Copy Share Image
Back in the early days at Netflix, it wasn't unheard of for me to tell prospective hires that I could see our… — Marc Randolph Back Copy Share Image
Here's a simple truth: When you surround a good idea with brilliant people, it changes. No matter how much you plan, great… — Marc Randolph Good Copy Share Image
I wanted to use my story of starting Netflix - the whole thing, warts and all - to show how a dream… — Marc Randolph Dream Copy Share Image
When I first met Jeff Bezos back in the late 90s, the only automated thing in his office was a rotating fan,… — Marc Randolph Amazon Copy Share Image
At a startup, it's hard enough to get a single thing right, much less a whole bunch of things. Especially if the… — Marc Randolph Customer 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 Business Copy Share Image
When I was 23, I was quite possibly the worst real estate agent in New York. I was working for my mother's… — Marc Randolph Mother 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 Business Copy Share Image
Companies make a big point of how their culture is all about 'bad news first,' but when it comes to people, they… — Marc Randolph Bad Copy Share Image
Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens - when preparation meets opportunity, with excellent results… — Marc Randolph Luck Copy Share Image
I personally believe that a critical part to innovation is that exchange of ideas so when you say, 'Here's my idea,' someone… — Marc Randolph Believe Copy Share Image
Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're… — Marc Randolph Bullying Copy Share Image
If you apprentice yourself to the smartest people who will take you seriously, you will learn at every step. You'll learn their… — Marc Randolph Every step 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… — Marc Randolph Day Copy Share Image
It used to be true that to succeed in the creative class, you had to move immediately to where the action was.… — Marc Randolph Action Copy Share Image
When we were kicking around the idea for Netflix in 1997, proving out an idea was expensive and labor-intensive. There was no… — Marc Randolph Cloud Copy Share Image
One of my bywords is that nobody knows anything, including me. — Marc Randolph Anything Copy Share Image
People are always advised to follow your dreams, but in 'That Will Never Work' I show them how! — Marc Randolph Dream Copy Share Image
Like most people in 1997, I hadn't ever even seen a DVD, much less watched one. — Marc Randolph Even Copy Share Image
Poor leaders have a certain style and that's the only style they have. — Marc Randolph Certain 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 Business Copy Share Image
Every successful career I've ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what… — Marc Randolph Career Copy Share Image
