That was pretty refreshing after reading Hatching Twitter earlier this year and seeing all the scheming, navigating, and backstabbing going on in their leadership. He praises Reed Hastings throughout the book and knew he was the right CEO to get them to where they are today. You couldn’t start an online business in a weekend by connecting a few cloud services together. DVDs weren’t the clear standard yet to take over VHS. And that’s just one many reminders of the state of the world back when Netflix started. We’d gotten 137-and potentially we’d gotten more than that, since we didn’t know how many people had tried to access the site when it was down. We’d expected 15 or 20 people to use the site to order a DVD. (Shout out to the “Skip intro” button that I’ve pressed countless times before rewatching Arrested Development episodes.) They started small (How do you get to 150 million subscribers? One at a time) Netflix makes its own TV shows, produces its own movies, and has changed the way people consume entertainment. (He left in 2002.) Near the end, he mentions some of the things that happened after he left:Īs I write this, the company has just passed 150 million subscribers, with customers in nearly every country in the world. In That Will Never Work, he writes about the early days of Netflix, before they started their original content empire. Marc Randolph was one of the founders of Netflix. Check out the full notes for “That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea” by Marc Randolph
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