Marc Randolph Quotes

Marc Randolph

Profession : Businessman

Birth : April 29, 1958

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

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Netflix is famous for its corporate culture, which rightly emphasizes directness and personal responsibility.

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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.

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If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

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In a two-sided market, focusing on the customer will increase a business's ability to extract value from the supply side.

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In the years after I left Netflix, the company I co-founded, I didn't want to puff myself up or tear anyone else down.

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I exited Netflix on wonderful terms, but I don't think I was totally at peace.

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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.

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Usually, when I give talks, I'm 100% there, 100% present.

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I came from years and years in the direct marketing industry where everything is layered.

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Banks and investors don't usually view a high-ranking executive in the company selling off massive amounts of stock as a good thing.

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I still have long lists of things that I want to accomplish every day.

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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.

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People watch 'The Social Network,' and what they hone in on is the wealth and the parties and the excitement, and they don't realize the grind and the 'gruelingness' and the disappointment.

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The role of a founder-CEO is extremely lonely. You can't always be fully forthcoming with your board or investors or employees.

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The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

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I'm definitely a note taker.

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When you're in a meeting and you pull out your paper notebook, people look at you and go, 'Oh, he's taking a note.' But if you're in a meeting and you pull out your iPad, they go, 'Oh, he's checking Facebook.'

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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.

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I personally believe that a critical part to innovation is that exchange of ideas so when you say, 'Here's my idea,' someone else at the next table, who is in a different party, will go, 'Oh, these guys are trying that,' so that comes.

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