- CO-founder and CEO of Netflix, and board member until his retirement in 2014
- Angel investor helping new startups and entrepreneurs succeed
- An entrepreneur with four decades worth of experience
The name Marc Randolph is synonymous with Netflix. He was a co-founder and CEO of this online movie and television streaming service and the website’s executive producer. He remained a board member of this company until his retirement in 2014.
Although he may be best known for co-founding Netflix, Marc’s entrepreneurial spirit spans over for decades, seeing him found, and succeed in, almost a dozen different startups. These days, Marc is a mentor to new entrepreneurs while he has become a successful Angel investor in numerous technological ventures. The latter role sees him provide private funding in order to help establish new business enterprises while helping young entrepreneurs achieve their goals.
“The idea means nothing because in almost every case the eventual successful business ends up bearing little resemblance to the original idea.” – Marc Randolph
Mar Randolph’s most recent business venture is the software company Looker Data Services of which he is a co-founder. He serves as an advisor to numerous startups, and fulfill the roles of mentor, CEO coach, and board member, extensively working with your entrepreneur programmes. Marc is also a trustee of National Outdoor Leadership School, a non-profit school based in the United States. The outdoor education school teaches environmental ethics, wilderness medicine, leadership, technical outdoor skills, and risk management and judgment by means of extended expeditions in the wilderness as well as in a traditional classroom setting.
Marc Randolph – Speaker
As a speaker, Marc Randolph is equally comfortable addressing large industry events and a smaller audience of corporate CEO’s. His experience as a company founder and entrepreneur gives him the authority to speak not only about the founding of companies, but how using innovation and turning ideas into reality result in success.
A blend of inspiration and stories drawn from his own experiences, Marc is well-able to gives scores of tips to budding entrepreneurs in order to make their dreams become a reality.
Speaking Topics
- Where do Ideas Come from: Learn how Silicon Valley’s most exciting startups come up with their ideas and how they turn those ideas into reality.
- How to get your company thinking like a startup: What Silicon Valley has to teach us about innovation
- Netflixed: how a scrappy Silicon Valley startup brought down Blockbuster and built one of the world’s best-known
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