Marc Randolph

Co-Founder and former CEO at Netflix

Marc Randolph is co-founder and the first CEO of Netflix. He is the author of That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.

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Updated on April 15, 2024

We Pitched Netflix to Blockbuster. They Laughed Us Out of the Building.

It was 2000. We were in the middle of the dot-com boom but hemorrhaging cash. We needed a $50 million buyout — and fast.