Although best known as the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, Marc Randolph's career as an entrepreneur span more than four decades. He's founded or co-founded half a dozen other successful start-ups, including, most recently, Looker Data Sciences, which was sold to Google in 2019 for $2.6B. He is currently mentoring a handful of other early-stage companies, has advised hundreds of other entrepreneurs, is an active seed investor in startups all over the world, the author of the international bestselling memoir That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea, and the host of the new podcast, That Will Never Work, where he dispenses advice, encouragement, and tough love to struggling entrepreneurs. Marc talks about his entrepreneurial beginnings, balancing his work and family lives, writing his book, starting a podcast, and much more!

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