Sugar Daddy-O: A great insight into what drives great ideas, the self belief, the self doubt and the need for building a team of good people who share values.
United Kingdom on Dec 16, 2023
Piece maker: Interesting story.
United States on Dec 03, 2023
Aron Croft: Entertaining insightful and enjoyable. Audiobook read by the author is very well done. A nice look behind the scenes at startup life and the founding of Netflix.
United States on Aug 07, 2023
tomislav: Very interesting stories, written with humor, loved it!
Germany on Feb 25, 2023
jaime: Great book! I first saw this book at my work's library. I rented it and didn't have the time to get through it. So I ordered it and I love it. It was so interesting reading about how Netflix started. All the brainstorming, thinking through problems, accomplishments and fails. It was a motivating book to read, highly recommend.
United States on Dec 09, 2022
Client d'Amazon: Si vous avez aimé Shoe Dog, ce livre est fait pour vous. On y apprend toutes les coulisses de Netflix avec un certain humour. Ce livre se dévore tant c’est intéressant !
France on Jun 28, 2022
Anamaria Spanache: One of the best book I ever read.
This book took me on an absolutely incredible state...I definitely love it!
Italy on Jun 08, 2022
Rufus Lefbetter: Business ideas are easy to brainstorm. Improving the way people do things and seeing an idea through to fruition is hard. More difficult is believing that your idea is worthy enough to risk starting a new company.
How a company makes it from conception to prominence is what Netflix co-founder Mark Randolph reveals in his book: “That Will Never Work”. His story begins on a daily carpool with his friend and co-worker Reed Hastings. Their daily ritual included brainstorming new business concepts that pop into their heads. Things are getting a bit stressful for Randolph who will soon be out of a job as Hastings is selling the tech company Randolph works for.
Randolph is never short on ideas which he numbers and tracks in a notebook. His brainstorms, include personalized shampoo, dog food, and baseball bats. Some ideas are vetted, others are quickly shot down. One day Randolph floats a service that could mail movie videos direct to consumers without charging fees. The thought strikes a chord with Hastings who fears telling his wife about $40 in late fees he owes at a local video store. The conversation continues. Both agree that Randolph should form a company to pursue...
United States on Sep 11, 2020
Wally Bock: That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea by Marc Randolph is a great book about a particular company that illustrates how an idea develops. Note that I didn’t say a “great idea.” Most ideas don’t start out great.
Most business creation stories feature a great flash of insight. The insight becomes a great company through a series of flawlessly planned and executed steps. But life is not like that. Most ideas don’t start out great. They don’t happen all at once. They evolve. And companies don’t become great because of great strategies elegantly executed. They aren’t great right of the gate. Instead, they become great by meeting challenges.
Netflix is like most companies, except you can add a lot of testing to the mix. Marc Randolph calls this book, “a memoir, not a documentary.” He tells you the story of the early days of the idea and the company that became Netflix the way he might do it over a glass of wine on the deck on a late summer afternoon.
If you were listening to Marc, you might take a sip of wine and ask him to explain a term or two you don’t understand. He’d give you a quick, but helpful...
United States on Jul 23, 2020
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Amazingly inspirational. Highly recommended 👍
India on Dec 29, 2023