What emerges,though, isn’t just the inside story of one of the world’s most iconic companies. 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.

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. But Hastings was intrigued, and the pair-with Hastings as the primary investor and Randolph as the CEO-founded a company. 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. Indeed, these were the widely accepted laws of the land in 1997, when Marc Randolph had an idea. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard was of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. In the tradition of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. You can read this before That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea written by Marc Randolph which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph

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