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Randolph, Marc.
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Randolph, Marc.
Netflix (Firm) -- History.
Entrepreneurship.
Internet videos -- United States.
Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
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Randolph, Marc.
Randolph, Marc.
Netflix (Firm) -- History.
Entrepreneurship.
Internet videos -- United States.
Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
MARC Display
That
will
never
work
: the
birth
of
Netflix
and the
amazing
life
of an
idea
/ Marc Randolph.
by
Randolph, Marc.
Little, Brown and Company, 2019.
Call #:
338.04 R194t
Subjects
Randolph, Marc.
Netflix
(Firm) -- History.
Entrepreneurship.
Internet videos -- United States.
Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
ISBN:
9780316530200 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Birth
of
Netflix
and the
amazing
life
of an
idea
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
ix, 325 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes index (pages 316-325).
Contents:
Against epiphanies -- "That
will
never
work
" -- Please, Mr. postman -- Getting the band together -- Show me the money -- How it feels to deposit a check for almost $2 million -- We were almost CinemaCenter -- Ready for launch -- A day in the post-launch
life
-- Halcyon days -- Two cents for Bill Clinton -- "I'm losing faith in you" -- Over the hill -- Nobody knows anything -- Drowning in our own success -- Crash -- The belt tightens -- Going public -- Epilogue: Randolph's rules for success.
Summary:
"Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming was unheard of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. Indeed, these were the widely accepted laws of the land in 1997, when Marc Randolph had an
idea
. It was a simple thought-leveraging the internet to rent movies-and was just one of many more and far worse proposals, like personalized baseball bats and a shampoo delivery service, that Randolph would pitch to his business partner, Reed Hastings, on their commute to
work
each morning. But Hastings was intrigued, and the pair-with Hastings as the primary investor and Randolph as the CEO-founded a company. Now with over 150 million subscribers,
Netflix
's triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty first century's most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. From having to pitch his own mother on being an early investor, to the motel conference room that served as a first office, to server crashes on launch day, to the now-infamous meeting when
Netflix
brass pitched Blockbuster to acquire them, Marc Randolph's transformational journey exemplifies how anyone with grit, gut instincts and determination can change the world-even with an
idea
that many think
will
never
work
."--Amazon.com.
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