Stories from the origins of Netflix

Karthik Kalyanaraman
4 min readMay 15, 2021
Marc Randolph Co-founder, Netflix

Netflix’s co-founder, Marc Randolph’s episode on the Tim Ferris show is full of interesting stories and nuggets from the origins of Netflix. I will try to paraphrase a few of them which I found interesting:

Good vs Bad Ideas

“There is no such thing as a good idea. Every idea is a bad idea. Crazy ideas that might have been Netflix: “

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Karthik Kalyanaraman

Software Engineer | Curious about technology and the economics of the tech industry | https://twitter.com/karthikkalyan90