Marc Randolph, The Birth of Netflix
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered what you would do without Netflix? This week we're continuing our special series Decide, Don’t Slide: Living Intentionally as Life Begins to Normalize. Joining Jessica is someone whose work has helped all of us find entertainment during isolation and virtually escape during lockdowns this past year: the co-founder and founding CEO of Netflix, Marc Randolph.
Marc is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. He is also the author of That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea and host of a new podcast by the same name.
Today, Marc and Jessica discover how the story of Netflix is more than just the inception of a culture-changing business; it's a lesson in living intentionally and making priorities for all aspects of life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, welcome back to The Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honegger, |
| 0:04.8 | founder of the Social Impact Fashion Brand Noon Day collection. Join me here every week for |
| 0:10.3 | conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. All right, |
| 0:16.4 | today is such a treat I admit I was really nervous to interview Mark Randolph. Why? Why was I |
| 0:22.3 | nervous because he is the founder of Netflix. That's right, Mark and his founding team |
| 0:29.3 | fundamentally altered how the world experiences media. And I was really disarmed by him. |
| 0:36.9 | He's an incredible storyteller. He is a true entrepreneur. He shares about his new |
| 0:42.4 | podcast that he just launched called That Will Never Work, which is actually named after |
| 0:48.0 | his book That Will Never Work, The Birth of Netflix, and the amazing life of an idea. I got |
| 0:54.4 | energy from this conversation with Mark. There is just something about speaking with someone who |
| 0:59.5 | is in their sweet spot, who has understood what their priorities are and is living into those. |
| 1:06.2 | I was super encouraged. I know that you will be too. |
| 1:09.1 | Okay, so Mark, you are classified. I classify you as a serial entrepreneur. |
| 1:21.6 | My dad would call serial entrepreneurs a special breed of cattle. |
| 1:27.4 | You, can you identify with that? |
| 1:30.2 | With being a special breed of cattle. |
| 1:32.7 | Special breed of cattle. We are Texans. We are Texans down here. |
| 1:41.2 | But certainly, I'll certainly classify myself as being a serial entrepreneur. |
| 1:46.4 | It's kind of a compulsive thing for me, and I've been doing it for a long, long time. |
| 1:50.8 | So you're most known as being the founder and CEO of Netflix. But I'm curious, what were some |
| 1:55.5 | of those ideas or other businesses that you even had before Netflix came to be? |
| 2:02.0 | Well, it's a long list. I didn't start Netflix until I was 37 or 38, and it was my sixth startup. |
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