Although best known as the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, Marc Randolph’s career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades. He’s founded or co-founded half a dozen other successful start-ups, including, most recently, Looker Data Sciences, which was sold to Google in 2019 for $2.6B. He is currently mentoring a handful of other early-stage companies, has advised hundreds of other entrepreneurs, is an active seed investor in startups all over the world, the author of the international bestselling memoir That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea, and the host of the new podcast, That Will Never Work, where he dispenses advice, encouragement, and tough love to struggling entrepreneurs.
Marc talks about his entrepreneurial beginnings, balancing his work and family lives, writing his book, starting a podcast, and much more!
In This Episode, You'll Learn about...
- Staying humble
- Taking an entrepreneurial idea into reality
- Why the book and podcast are called “That Will Never Work”
- The entrepreneurial spouse
- Achieving balance between work and home
- Start on a small scale
- Writing his book
- That Will Never Work Podcast
- Selling Looker to Google
- Focusing on quality relationships
- Power commenting
Links and Resources
- Marc’s Website
- Marc on Clubhouse
- Where to connect with Marc: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
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