Marc Randolph @mbrandolph
Co-founder of @Netflix & 6 other companies 🏔🏄♂️🚴Outdoor enthusiast marcrandolph.com Santa Cruz Joined September 2008-
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Phenomenal point, as always, from @mbrandolph. Learned vs earned knowledge and how to process all sorts of inputs but make the combined knowledge your own is key.
Phenomenal point, as always, from @mbrandolph. Learned vs earned knowledge and how to process all sorts of inputs but make the combined knowledge your own is key.
You should be skeptical of every piece of entrepreneurship advice you see on social media (yes, even mine). Because for every success story you read about, there are probably a hundred (or more) entrepreneurs who crashed and burned doing nearly the same thing. But you don’t…
I’ve learned that the single biggest reason for failure is never starting.
If you’re a scrappy startup, don’t worry so much about the resources or finances of entrenched competitors. You can often take advantage of what’s holding them back.
Great share. I am firmly convinced there’s no such thing as a good idea. Every idea is a bad idea. No idea performs the way you expect once you collide it with reality. And the more I learn, the more I believe that it’s true.
Great share. I am firmly convinced there’s no such thing as a good idea. Every idea is a bad idea. No idea performs the way you expect once you collide it with reality. And the more I learn, the more I believe that it’s true.
Ask Marc Randolph (Co-Founder of Netflix) - Live Q&A April x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
The question I’m probably asked most frequently is “When should I give up?” It’s a great question, and I confess I still don’t have a great answer for it. For me, the right time to give up on an entrepreneurial project depends on a balance between a) determination to make it…
Should I bootstrap? Here’s what I’ll say: For the majority of founders, bootstrapping is the way to go. If you don't know where the business is going, it'd be crazy to invest a lot of money in a guess about the direction it might head. My rule of thumb is that the size of…
When you’re running a startup, speed is inversely proportional to spend. This might sound counter-intuitive: There’s a popular perception that moving faster means spending more, but in my experience it’s exactly the opposite. When you’re moving fast, you don’t have time to…
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You should be skeptical of every piece of entrepreneurship advice you see on social media (yes, even mine). Because for every success story you read about, there are probably a hundred (or more) entrepreneurs who crashed and burned doing nearly the same thing. But you don’t…
@mbrandolph The single biggest reason for tweeting is no reason.
@mbrandolph Another indicator is when you’ve run out of ideas to grow the business.
@mbrandolph I think it is true for other things as well; all commitments in professional/personal life. Everyone’s resilience/resistance is different like every material has its own tensile strength..we humans can push and make it better with time but still it will be subjective for all
@mbrandolph Are we talking about "whether the idea itself isn't going to work even with maximum resources that the best person can get"? Or "am I the best person to make this work w resources available for me"? To me if we break it down to these questions, answering it would be easier
@mbrandolph I have a friend : real friends inspire real friends. Maybe? "I have a friend who’s a good enough entrepreneur to keep things alive forever, but not good enough to ever reach escape velocity." - That stood out from this: To @mbrandolph - Co Founder Netflix. The question…
@mbrandolph Indeed! It’s far too easy to fall victim to the sunk cost fallacy.
@mbrandolph Legitimately something that is not talked about enough. I think the average human being, who’s just living out the human experience, is forever trying to decipher boredom from a lack of motivation, fatigue from a lack of interest, confusion from a lack of clarity, etc., etc. etc.
@mbrandolph Me and this friend have something in common, I'm thankful to read this perspective.
@mbrandolph @ChetanChawla - feel like we had this conversation while I was at @northcentralcol. Fascinating topic that isn’t discussed enough.
You don’t need to be in Silicon Valley. Disruption and innovation can come from anywhere. Don't let your location be an excuse. Start.
I want to get back into a habit of writing every day. Minimum of 30 minutes writing for 30 days straight. There's no better way to punch up your thinking & ability to tell a persuasive story. Looking for one accountability partner to commit to doing this with me for the…
@mbrandolph Based on what you wrote below in the thread, you actually were a *good* student. You just weren't studying for the exam.
@mbrandolph This sounds familiar. I used to say, "I got 'A's in things I enjoyed and 'F's in things I didn't. " My trick was to find enough things -- the extracurriculars as you called them -- that I enjoyed that allowed me to err on the positive side of the ledger.
@mbrandolph “20 years from now, nobody will care about your SAT scores or what your GPA was. But your ability to think for yourself will never be irrelevant.” Love that. Great read, Marc
@mbrandolph The way teachers and educational systems categorize students as good or bad is fundamentally flawed and that it has poor correlation to life outcomes. It also amounts to emotional abuse of students tagged negatively.
@mbrandolph Tremendous thread sir. Thank you for all that you do and sharing your life’s experiences and wisdom with us. Your one hell of a teacher ;)