Marc Randolph, Netflix Co-Founder, on the idea that changed entertainment forever.

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Recovery, Health, Life Sciences, Data, Optimize Performance, Science, Hrv, Fitness, Wearable, Health & Fitness, Sports, Strain, Whoop, Sleep

4.6 • 690 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph sits down with Will Ahmed to discuss how the company he started in the late 90s grew into the entertainment giant that it is today. Randolph details how the idea for Netflix came about (3:43), some of the "stupid" ideas they almost tried instead (6:46), how investors told him it would never work (9:49), industry disruption (13:09), the importance of building a strong company culture (19:35) and not playing Little League (24:18), Amazon's attempt to buy Netflix...

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0:00.0	We discovered that there were secrets that your body was trying to tell you that could really help you optimize performance.
0:10.6	But no one could monitor those things.
0:12.9	And that's when we set out to build the technology that we thought could really change the world.
0:18.8	Welcome to the Whoop podcast.
0:21.2	I'm your host, Will Ahmed, founder and CEO of Woop, where we are on a mission to unlock
0:27.2	human performance.
0:29.1	At Woop, our clients range from the best professional athletes in the world, to Navy SEALs,
0:33.8	to fitness enthusiasts, to Fortune 500 CEOs and executives.
0:36.7	The common threat among
0:38.1	WOOP members is a passion to improve. What does it take to optimize performance for athletes,
0:43.1	for humans, really anyone? On this podcast, we dig deeper. We interview experts. We interview
0:48.9	industry leaders across sports, data, technology, physiology, athletic achievement, you name it.
0:55.2	How can you use data to improve your body?
0:57.7	What should you change about your life?
1:00.0	My hope is that you'll leave these conversations with some new ideas and a greater passion
1:04.1	for performance.
1:05.3	With that in mind, I welcome you to the Whoop Podcast.
1:10.0	What's up, folks, Will Ahmed here.
1:12.2	My guest today is Mark Randolph, the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix.
1:18.4	Mark is the author of a new book called That Will Never Work, the birth of Netflix and the
1:23.4	amazing life of an idea.
1:25.6	And that incredible idea has literally changed the way the world
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