Keynote SpeakersMarc Randolph is the co-founder of Netflix. A veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Marc is an advisor, investor and keynote speaker.
As co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, he laid much of the groundwork for a service that’s grown to over 275 million subscribers and fundamentally altered how the world experiences media.
Marc’s career as an entrepreneur spans four decades. He’s founded or co-founded six other successful startups, mentored hundreds of early-stage entrepreneurs, and as an investor has helped seed dozens of successful tech ventures (and even more unsuccessful ones).
Most recently, Marc co-founded the analytics software company Looker Data Sciences, which Google acquired in 2019 for $2.6 billion.
Marc Randolph is also the author of the internationally best-selling memoir, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and The Amazing Life of an Idea, which tells the untold story of Netflix.
He is the host of the top-10 Apple podcast That Will Never Work, where he works directly with entrepreneurs, providing 1-on-1 mentoring.
Marc is also a judge and investor on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Elevator Pitch web series.
As a popular global keynote speaker, Marc Randolph speaks on innovation, disruption, entrepreneurship, and corporate culture. He inspires audiences to challenge conventional thinking while equipping them with practical, actionable strategies they can implement immediately.
Marc Randolph Speaking Topics:
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
Marc shares the unlikely story of how a handful of dreamers with no money and a bad idea created the company that eventually brought down Blockbuster.
Packed with dozens of stories tracing the dramatic ups and downs of those first exciting years, Marc weaves an inspiring narrative that shows the value of innovation, persistence, and optimism.
Along the way, he shares some of the many values he believes made Netflix successful, including a focus on analytics and testing, a novel corporate culture, and an almost fanatical obsession with focus.
Equal parts inspiration, start-up story, and practical tips, it’s a message that resonates well with anyone who appreciates a good “overcoming adversity” story.
Meet Me at the Top: Trusting People, Building Culture, and Having the Courage to Walk Away
Marc takes you inside the crucible where Netflix’s legendary culture was forged.
Audiences experience the crushing moments when traditional management approaches failed spectacularly, including:
- The costly mistakes that forced Marc to question everything he thought he knew about running a company.
- The late-night revelations that came from trusting people when every instinct screamed not to.
- The counterintuitive breakthroughs that emerged when he finally stopped trying to control everything.
This isn’t a lecture about corporate culture – it’s the raw, unvarnished story of how a struggling startup, bleeding cash and facing extinction, discovered that letting go was the only way to survive.
Through dozens of hard-won stories from Marc’s 40-year career as a serial entrepreneur, audiences witness the actual battles that led to each revolutionary principle.
You’ve probably heard the expression “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Now discover the harrowing journey that proved it true.
Marc Randolph lives in Santa Cruz, California.
