Marc Randolph

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, who in 1997 co-founded the online movie and television streaming service Netflix. Marc was their founding CEO, and during his 6 years with the company he played a central role in their transformation from a tiny DVD-by-mail company into a worldwide enterprise with millions of delighted subscribers. Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc’s career as an entrepreneur actually spans more than four decades. He’s been a founder of more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, a mentor to scores of early stage entrepreneurs, and an investor in numerous successful tech ventures (and an even larger number of unsuccessful ones). Most recently, Marc co-founded analytics software company Looker Data Sciences, and currently serves as an advisor to multiple other startups, serving variously as a mentor, CEO coach, and board member. He is the author of the internationally best-selling memoir, That Will Never Work – the birth of Netflix and the amazing life of an idea, host of the top-10 That Will Never Work podcast, and a star of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Elevator Pitch web series. Marc truly believes there is no such thing as a bad idea. Which, as he says, goes a long way toward explaining why he has such a terrible track record as an angel investor.