Like most people in 1997, I hadn't ever even seen a DVD, much less watched one. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
I am the luckiest guy you will ever meet. The most fortunate guy you'll ever meet. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
As software began to be sold to people who would never consider themselves technical, it suddenly became clear that you needed people… — Marc Randolph 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
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
My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired. — Marc Randolph Day 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
You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do. — Marc Randolph Business Copy Share Image
Netflix is famous for its corporate culture, which rightly emphasizes directness and personal responsibility. — Marc Randolph Corporate 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… — Marc Randolph Assembly line 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 Business 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
If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its… — Marc Randolph Business Copy Share Image
I just always believed we would succeed. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out… — 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
With people, if you see something you want to change, you can make the change immediately. And if that doesn't work, you… — Marc Randolph Change 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
Innovation is doing something in a different way, but it also has a subtext: When there's an established way, and that way… — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Most people who have ideas, those ideas sit in their head forever until they eventually die. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
Most legacy companies get crushed - they get Blockbustered - because they are too afraid to walk away from the status quo,… — 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 Business Copy Share Image
By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth, the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own. — Marc Randolph Courage Copy Share Image
The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees. — 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… — Marc Randolph Nothing Copy Share Image
Build something, make something, test something, sell something. Learn for yourself if your idea is a good one. — Marc Randolph Copy Share Image
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 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 Ability 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
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 Books 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
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 Business Copy Share Image
As a student I'd done work with a charity that took inner-city kids from disadvantaged areas and introduced them to hiking and… — Marc Randolph Charity 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
The most powerful step that anyone can take to turn their dreams into reality is a simple one. You just need to… — Marc Randolph Dream 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 Business 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
People imagine that Netflix sprang fully formed into a global streaming giant, but Netflix might have been personalised sporting goods - or… — Marc Randolph Food Copy Share Image
