@marcrandolph Marc Randolph

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"Hi. I'm Marc Randolph co-founder and first CEO of Netflix. Ask me anything"
X Link 2025-09-27T01:20Z 158.3K followers, 3.7M engagements

"@richminer @lmgriffjohnson @stoolpresidente @sama @rabois @mcuban @HarringtonKevin @justinkan @Chad_Hurley @alexisohanian @JoshRichards Maybe you and I should do one. Now that might be a fair matchup"
X Link 2021-01-17T01:10Z 112.2K followers, [--] engagements

"Seville has been making her own jewelry by hand since she was [--]. Her unique works have become favorites of such icons as Patricia Field and Alicia Keys. Now shes focused on how to expand what she does without changing who she is. http://linktr.ee/marcrandolph http://linktr.ee/marcrandolph"
X Link 2021-11-03T14:00Z 109.1K followers, [--] engagements

"Fun fact.Netflix was originally named Kibble. We were concerned about building a service that looked good but that nobody wanted to use. So we chose Kibble to remind us of the old advertising adage that It doesnt matter how good your dog food advertising campaign is if the dogs wont eat the dog food"
X Link 2023-04-30T21:08Z 109.2K followers, 16.8K engagements

"The Netflix IPO was exactly [--] years agotoday. We had done it We had turned an envelope and a Patsy Cline CD into a publicly traded company. It was the sort of success wed all hoped for the thing that we had promised the people who had invested their money in us. And had held out as a reward for those who had invested their time. But it was a milestone not an endpoint. I went back to work the next day. We still had Blockbuster and Walmart to fight.Streaming and proprietary content were still years in the future.But at least now we had the resources to do those things right. If anythingMay 23"
X Link 2023-05-23T15:52Z 99.5K followers, 125K engagements

"Back in January a single LinkedIn post of mine got over 300k likes: more engagement than everything Id posted before it combined. And while Im not entirely sure why I do know it wouldnt have happened without an incredible amount of persistence. It was a solidly written post about maintaining work/life balance but was it 20x better than anything else Id posted Absolutely not. See social media is a little bit like geological erosion: 99% of the progress takes place in 1% of the time. In geology that means earthquakes volcanic eruptions floods or a rock thats been cracking for [----] years finally"
X Link 2023-06-06T20:57Z 107.3K followers, 106.2K engagements

"I would say that being comfortable being sloppy is probably the most important skill Ive developed over my forty years as an entrepreneur. Im a perfectionist by nature so its been a very difficult thing for me to let things go when they are obviously not ready. But after"
X Link 2023-06-29T22:14Z 99.3K followers, [---] engagements

"Ive always been an optimist. And over a forty-year career as an entrepreneur that glass-half-full attitude has been an occupational necessity. Theres no way I could have kept launching into new ventures and being told that will never work time and time again without"
X Link 2023-07-09T01:32Z 99.3K followers, 59.7K engagements

"In the NeverLand Discord last week we heard a YC grad tell us that his relationship with his co-founder was one of the key factor in him being accepted to the program. Sounds like its even more important to the outcome"
X Link 2023-07-12T04:18Z 95.1K followers, 15.6K engagements

"Being a founder and being a CEO are two different skill sets. Sometimes they overlap I was co-founder/CEO at Netflix for several yearsbut just as often they dont. And thats fine. When I stepped down as Netflix CEO it was because we all realized I wasnt the best person to"
X Link 2023-07-12T15:04Z 99.3K followers, 120.6K engagements

"Id never pitch on Zoom. Services like Zoom enable remote work and are certainly time efficient but they are not one-size-fits-all solutions.They are particularly bad for pitching ideas - not because you cant get your idea across but simply because you are in grave danger"
X Link 2023-07-19T22:22Z 99.3K followers, 84.3K engagements

"Every great invention artwork or breakthrough started by setting an idea free"
X Link 2023-07-23T01:21Z 122.4K followers, 43.5K engagements

"Its not about having good ideas its about having a processand a culturefor trying lots of ideas. In the first few years after Netflix launched I was completely focused on figuring out how to get rental to work. I had no shortage of ideas; my problem was much worse: I was a perfectionist. Every test was a work of art with custom photography perfect copy and every link thoroughly stress-tested before launch. Each test would take weeks to put together only to fail. We needed to go faster so we cut testing time to a week. Then a day. And eventually we were doing multiple tests a day. Things got"
X Link 2023-08-03T15:16Z 99.3K followers, 153.2K engagements

"When Im listening to apitch Im not focusing on your product your market size or your sales channels. Im looking at you. Do you know where you are going Do you have both hands on the wheel Can you pair your vision with action Because Ive learned there is nothing more powerful than an a leader that knows where they are going and is committed to doing whatever it takes to get there"
X Link 2023-08-03T18:49Z 99.3K followers, 64.4K engagements

"The recent cult of the entrepreneur has created this perception that what an entrepreneur does is start big companies raise money go on Shark Tank get rich fly around on a private jet etc. But thats a very very small percentage of entrepreneurs. What most of us actually do is pretty mundane and repetitive. We mostly come up with small ideas figure out ways to try them out see if they work. And then repeat that cycle over and over again. And that is something that doesnt require much of anything to start. And something that surprisingly is deeply satisfying"
X Link 2023-08-07T15:34Z 99.3K followers, 82.4K engagements

"Train yourself to look for pain to see the world as imperfect and the ideas will flood in. However finding the one that works Thats a much harder proposition but one that is incredibly rewarding if you figure it out"
X Link 2023-08-17T08:06Z 99.3K followers, 17.7K engagements

"I once had an opposing lawyer make a ridiculous contract request - something that had not been in the handshake agreement I had with the other party. I pushed back - hard - and he just sheepishly looked at me shrugged and with a slight smile said Dont ask Dont get At the time I was so mad at that. But over time (this was nearly [--] years ago) Ive mellowed and Ive now come to think this is some of the best advice that we can be given. Too often we are afraid to open our mouths for fear that (as I reacted) we will make someone mad. Or come off as greedy or unreasonable. But Ive come to believe"
X Link 2023-08-19T20:08Z 99.3K followers, 53K engagements

"Two of the most important skills for any leader are knowing what to focus on and then having the discipline to exert disproportionate amounts of force toward making those things as great as they can be"
X Link 2023-08-20T18:38Z 99.3K followers, 35.4K engagements

"Dont obsess about predicting the future. Instead put yourself in a position where youre poised to take advantage of whatever happens next. Its the only way to ensure you and your idea survives whatever innovations disruptions and curve-balls the future can throw at it"
X Link 2023-08-24T04:21Z 108.8K followers, 23.4K engagements

"Theres a big difference between an interesting concept and a viable business"
X Link 2023-08-25T04:20Z 109.1K followers, 45.3K engagements

"Have a lot of ideas Heres how I choose where to start:"
X Link 2023-08-25T23:28Z 99.3K followers, 90.8K engagements

"Culture is like erosion: 99% of the changes take place in 1% of the time. And the strongest cultural signals are sent by who you hire who you fire and who you reward"
X Link 2023-08-26T19:21Z 99.3K followers, 19.3K engagements

"Ive been fortunate to work with some of the best developers designers and executives out there and Ive found two things they almost all have in common. The first is that they can get a job just about anywhere they want. Word gets around in the tech and entrepreneurial world after all and everyones looking for great talent. The second is that theyre never just in it for the money. They have certain minimum expectations around pay and equity but past a certain point another $20k isnt relevant"
X Link 2023-08-29T05:02Z 99.3K followers, 19.1K engagements

"Im [--] now so Ive made plenty of cringeworthy mistakes over the years. Im fine with that because in my lineof work making an ass of oneself is an occupational hazard. Despite all the times my parents admonished me to: think before you act Ive learned that for an entrepreneur the opposite is true. When you are doing something that hasnt been done before no amount of thinking is going to tell you how to do it. Youve got to try something see what happens and learn from it. The best entrepreneurs think less and do more. Making mistakes is part of the job. Whenever Im asked what was your biggest"
X Link 2023-08-31T22:01Z 97.9K followers, 20K engagements

"Dont bore people with technical details is good advice up to a point. But if youre asking for an investment of money effort or time you have to build more than excitement. You have to build credibility"
X Link 2023-09-09T00:04Z 99.3K followers, 19.7K engagements

"I saw this a few days ago and couldnt help laughing out loud. Theres something so satisfying about humor that does nothing more than clearly state exactly whats going on. Whats going on in this postand in real life thousands of times a dayis that companies trying to find good talent are fundamentally misunderstanding their relationship with the people theyre hiring. Ive written before about the importance of treating employees like adults by giving them the trust and control they need to feel engaged with their work. Well thats true even before you hire them. If you want to keep your"
X Link 2023-09-12T14:55Z 99.3K followers, 27K engagements

"When I was in my mid-twenties Id been living with my girlfriend (who is now my wife) for a number of years. I was armpits-deep in becoming an entrepreneur working nights and weekends and one day it dawned on me: my girlfriend was getting the leftovers which clearly wasnt the basis for a sustainable relationship. I decided then and there that if I wanted the most important thing in my lifeto stay in my lifeI had to make it a priority. And Ive worked extremely hard for the last [--] years to make that happen"
X Link 2023-09-12T17:13Z 99.3K followers, 100.4K engagements

"These days my short-term memory is like writing in the sand on a windy day. No matter how many times I tell myself Ill remember this when I get home its usually gone before Ive taken three steps. So Ive gotten in the habit of scribbling every one of my brain-farts onto a 3x5 card.And every evening I lay them all out and review what Ive written. To be honest most of those 3x5 thoughts arent worth remembering. But theres always the occasional nugget: that call I need to make the chore that needs doing the spark of an idea that might start a fire on social media"
X Link 2023-09-14T20:48Z 99.3K followers, 17.5K engagements

"Too many people are drawn to entrepreneurship for the wrong reasons. They are doing it because they think it will make them rich famous or powerful. But of course once you start you quickly find out that entrepreneurship has very little to do with those things. The successful entrepreneurs I know are almost universally motivated by something else: they love solving problems. 🎥: @cory"
X Link 2023-09-16T17:04Z 99.3K followers, 20.7K engagements

"Startups are almost always under-resourced. There are always [---] things broken all crying out for attention but you only have the resources to fix a handful of them. Even then the best entrepreneurs know not to spread those resources evenly. Do you have just enough people to handle ten things Then its better to pick two things and do them five times as well"
X Link 2023-09-21T04:27Z 99.3K followers, 56.1K engagements

"Im pretty sure that what really attracts and retains top people is first off simply being treated like adults. If youre hiring top talent theres really no need to saddle them down with a stack of rules and policies to make sure they do their job well. Theyre pros so give them the flexibility and responsibility to work however they work best. On this count they probably know better than you"
X Link 2023-09-24T05:00Z 99.3K followers, 171.2K engagements

"Netflix was a slog. It took us about [--] months to find the repeatable scalable model we needed. And even after that it took us 2-1/2 more years to get to [------] subscribers. I was so pumped I decided to print out the report where we finally crossed the line. Netflix DVD-by-mail at its peak had nearly [--------] subscribers"
X Link 2023-09-26T23:02Z 99.3K followers, 189.7K engagements

"Still there OK if youre going to insist on reading further then lets talk about mental health in the workplace for a moment. There is some discussion going on but its not enough because the situation is getting worse. Slack is constantly calling for our attention. Cell phones make us available and responsive at all hours. And the recent pronounced shift to working from home has further blurred the line between work and personal time. These topics matter. Endless product sprints rivers of text messages and dashboards full of productivity metrics all push push push us to behave in unsustainable"
X Link 2023-10-10T16:14Z 99.3K followers, 13.3K engagements

"ChatGPT can can churn out five perfect paragraphs in the time it takes me to adjust my chair height.It can compose an email reply before Ive finished reading the original. And its all more concise clearer and more grammatically correct than anything I wouldve written. But there are a lot of things AI isnt so good at. Top of my list: its got no personality. When it writes for me it quickly and effortlessly gets my point across but in an anonymous predictable way"
X Link 2023-10-11T18:51Z 99.3K followers, 29.7K engagements

"I often talk about the Canada Principle which says that for a company instead of blindly chasing down every compelling opportunity you need to have the discipline to stay focused on the one or two things that are most important. Or put another way you have to recognize that what looks like low hanging fruit rarely is. But this advice can apply equally well to you as a person. Not only do you not have to be good at everythingyou shouldnt be. Think about the tasks you go through on a given day. How many of these would be better done by someone else Or even better not done at all Freeing"
X Link 2023-10-16T05:30Z 95.1K followers, 45.1K engagements

"One of the most important things Ive learned as Ive gotten older is that most things dont matter. Whatever youre trying to accomplish there are usually just a couple of things on that to-do list that will actually make a difference. Im not saying the rest of the items on your list shouldnt get doneIm just saying they probably dont need to be done well"
X Link 2023-10-21T04:21Z 95.2K followers, 65.2K engagements

"Read my full thoughts here:"
X Link 2023-10-22T23:31Z 97.7K followers, 331.3K engagements

"Things are rarely as good or bad as they seem. AI will neither save humanity nor ruin it. Climate change is horrifying and feels inexorable but worth fighting. Founders: remember this in moments high and low. Emotional regulation is undervalued"
X Link 2023-10-23T01:35Z 95.1K followers, 30.8K engagements

"Going live with @Entrepreneur soon. Ask me anything:"
X Link 2023-10-31T18:12Z 97.5K followers, 12.2K engagements

"Risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one. That takes courage"
X Link 2023-11-01T06:03Z 97.7K followers, 17.9K engagements

"Not running for airplanes isnt just a travel tip. Its a way of thinking about work-life balance. Allow me to explain. In the business world entrepreneurs and leaders often brag about their attention to detail. Theyll involve themselves in every negotiation to make sure every deal detail is perfect. Theyll want to review every underlings decision in advance to ensure its right thinking you never know which detail will be the one that closes that big deal. I listen to this kind of stuff all the time. And you know what I hear The sound of someone running for a plane. Im guessing that 99% of the"
X Link 2023-11-01T20:49Z 97.5K followers, 54.8K engagements

"Which founders should I be paying attention to Looking to add some new faces to my timeline"
X Link 2023-11-06T22:48Z 99.3K followers, 183.1K engagements

"You need to be EXTREMELY careful to not let yourself be drawn into the fantasy of wont it be so amazing when everybody has this"
X Link 2023-11-15T06:05Z 97.8K followers, 17.1K engagements

"People often ask me what are the keys to being successful. First define success correctly. If you're defining success as money or fame then I have no idea. But for me success has always been whether I could spend my time doing things that I enjoy and that I did well. Anyone has the capacity to find that kind of success. And if you can do those things while staying connected to your friends and family and having the time to pursue the other aspects of your life that make you whole - well those are success bonus points"
X Link 2023-11-24T08:22Z 97.9K followers, 41.8K engagements

"Having a great product is only one small component of succeeding as a startup:"
X Link 2023-11-25T06:33Z 97.9K followers, 136.1K engagements

"Second it needs to be out there in the world proving that people will use it. But most important it needs to be targeted to the right audienceideally one (like parents) that make their own decisions about what to buy and are ready to advocate for your product if they love it"
X Link 2023-11-25T06:34Z 97.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The worst mistake you can make is to try and do everything 5% of the way rather than picking [--] and doing each of them 125%"
X Link 2023-11-29T01:52Z 97.9K followers, 21.6K engagements

"The trick is not to obsess over things being perfect"
X Link 2023-12-07T07:07Z 98.1K followers, 27K engagements

"I grew up in an affluent town and was lucky to be surrounded by plenty of powerful successful people. But the lucky part for me was not meeting people who were powerful and successful. It was realizing just how unhappy most of them were:"
X Link 2023-12-11T02:10Z 123.5K followers, 371.6K engagements

"The most frequent question I get during interviews is: What was your biggest failure and what did you learn from it 🧵"
X Link 2023-12-20T03:40Z 98.2K followers, 66.4K engagements

"But the most important thing Ive learned about failures is that I cant ever know which of them might end up being the best thing that ever happened to me. And Ill take that risk all day long"
X Link 2023-12-20T03:40Z 98.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Balance is possible when running a start-up but it takes commitment and constant attention. I realized it was perfectly possible to fit in a 6am surf before getting to the office at 8am but the effort to maintain that commitment was no easy feat. Balance isnt easy but its essential to avoid burnout as a founder. Its why I tell every founder I know make sure you have a life outside of your work"
X Link 2023-12-21T15:58Z 98.5K followers, 35.8K engagements

"Get enough things wrong and eventually you'll stop worrying that the world is going to end every time you try something new"
X Link 2023-12-23T15:46Z [--] followers, 36K engagements

"So when I read that Netflix was launching a restaurant my first thought was what are they thinking Restaurants are a notoriously difficult business. Sixty percent fail within their first year of operation.They have one of the highest overhead rates of any industry leaving just a tiny margin of profitand even less room for error. But for Netflix its biggest cost could be losing focus"
X Link 2023-12-28T15:53Z 99.3K followers, 35.6K engagements

"Well I would venture a guess but then againIm usually wrong"
X Link 2023-12-28T15:53Z [--] followers, 18.6K engagements

"VCs have no obligation to help anyone. Thats not their job. If you want a handout go to a foundation and get a grant. Their job is to generate returns for their investors.That's it"
X Link 2024-01-09T15:24Z 123.8K followers, [----] engagements

"Ive come to realize that if your sole definition of success is getting to an IPO or a major acquisition then youre destined to be disappointed. So while Im certainly proud of the companies Ive started and of the businesses Ive helped create Im far more proud of the fact I managed to do those things while raising a family staying married to the same wonderful person for all these years and finding time to do the other things I love. Success for me is about balance"
X Link 2024-01-17T16:34Z 99.3K followers, 48.9K engagements

"ChatGPT has got to be one of the most brilliant marketing launches in history. There are a million ways OpenAI could have shared it with the world. But they made a conscious decision to turn cutting-edge technology into a conversation that's accessible to everyone"
X Link 2024-01-21T20:20Z 99.3K followers, 13K engagements

"Probably the most important thing you can do to increase your odds of success are to surround yourself with exceptional people"
X Link 2024-01-31T18:30Z 99.3K followers, 32.2K engagements

"As entrepreneurs artists or just people with dreams the worst thing you can do is get so caught up in planning the perfect idea that you never get around to actually well doing it"
X Link 2024-02-13T19:18Z 99.4K followers, 17.2K engagements

"If we fall short of our goals as entrepreneurs its recoverable. But if we ruin our health mental state and relationships its a much harder path back"
X Link 2024-02-20T19:16Z 99.6K followers, 45.2K engagements

"I just came across a post on Hacker News by an entrepreneur whos quitting his startup. And I wanted to share it here because its such a powerful example of something Ive said a thousand times: protecting your mental health as an entrepreneur is critical. And its hard. There are a million things to do as an entrepreneur. You have to convince people to follow you support you believe in you and pay for what youve made thats hard. And you have to continue doing all this in the face of repeated failures thats nearly impossible. At the same time theres an avalanche of messages out there saying just"
X Link 2024-02-21T03:16Z 99.6K followers, 43K engagements

"Ive been working with a number of big influencers and it makes me wonder: What level of fame is optimal LeBron James can meet anyone go to any event work with anyone but cant go to Starbucks"
X Link 2024-02-26T04:07Z 99.6K followers, 44.3K engagements

"#NewProfilePic"
X Link 2024-03-08T06:32Z 99.6K followers, 11.9K engagements

"Im a lot more interested in what kind of person you are rather than what title you have"
X Link 2024-03-14T03:35Z 99.7K followers, 28.6K engagements

"The important thing isnt to follow some kind of influencer-approved have-it-all schedule where every day has you exercising meditating hustling focusing socializing and crushing every presentation (all while eating a healthy diet and getting plenty of sleep). In the real world nobody can do that. Not every day at least. Instead whats important is to figure out your way of finding balance on whatever schedule you can make work. Yours wont be the same as mine and it probably wont be the same for you five years from now. But theres always a way to make balance workeven if it means accepting a"
X Link 2024-03-19T02:29Z 99.6K followers, 14.1K engagements

"We all have our strengths and I know angel investing isnt one of mine"
X Link 2024-03-19T16:02Z 107.1K followers, 19.5K engagements

"What looks like low hanging fruit rarely is"
X Link 2024-03-21T14:50Z 99.7K followers, 16.7K engagements

"If you dont have the courage to ask the only answer youll get is no"
X Link 2024-03-23T14:56Z 99.6K followers, 36.1K engagements

"Ive often said that the best reason to work on a startup isnt to make money but to solve interesting problems with smart passionate people. But working with nonprofits is potentially even better: once you remove the need for profitability the range of interesting problems gets considerably wider"
X Link 2024-04-01T05:15Z 99.6K followers, 22.7K engagements

"Great share. I am firmly convinced theres 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 its true. Precisely https://t.co/mbnnpIHVbD Precisely https://t.co/mbnnpIHVbD"
X Link 2024-04-13T04:23Z 99.6K followers, 44.6K engagements

"26 years ago today - on April 14th [----] at 8am in the morning Eric Meyer leaned forward tapped a few keys on his laptop and launched #Netflix to the world. That first day was a long one. We crashed our servers. Ran out of mailing labels. Scrambled to get everything to the post office in time. But we ended that day with [---] customers. Today Netflix has more than [---] million of them. 🧵"
X Link 2024-04-14T18:22Z 99.7K followers, 114.6K engagements

"Blockbuster almost won"
X Link 2024-04-17T20:14Z 99.7K followers, 17.3K engagements

"What problem are you trying to solve"
X Link 2024-04-18T04:45Z 99.7K followers, 52.5K engagements

"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 dont hear about them becausewellthey crashed and burned"
X Link 2024-04-26T17:12Z 99.7K followers, 27.6K engagements

"You dont need to start company. For a lot of people the best path is to find an organization where they like working that's doing things they appreciate and build up from there. This recent post on X makes the point pretty well: Steve Squeri the current CEO of American Express got there by working at.American Express. For forty years. Not by jumping from role to role and company to company or by getting into a new venture every [--] months. the last of their kind https://t.co/WX1WGnThJr the last of their kind https://t.co/WX1WGnThJr"
X Link 2024-05-03T00:17Z 107.7K followers, 65.9K engagements

"You get the best out of people when you assume the best of them. 🧵"
X Link 2024-05-04T17:36Z 99.8K followers, 14.3K engagements

"You should never run for an airplane. Not running for airplanes isnt just a travel tip. Its a way of thinking about work-life balance. Allow me to explain:"
X Link 2024-05-10T06:31Z 100.2K followers, 255K engagements

"Optimism is a double-edged sword. Being a relentless optimist has sustained me through all sorts of challenges and frustrations as an entrepreneur. But as an angel investor its meant that I like nearly every idea I seewhich isnt necessarily great for picking which ones to back. Still I think Id rather be an optimist who makes a few bad investments than a pessimist who doesnt. After all Id have never made it to where I am today if I agreed with all the people saying my ideas wouldnt work"
X Link 2024-05-13T22:03Z 106.7K followers, [----] engagements

"I tell young entrepreneurs all the time; The future doesnt care about the past. If you want your company to succeed you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one"
X Link 2024-05-14T04:57Z 100.2K followers, 20.3K engagements

"A lot of the problems you face as a founder there will be no one else to talk to about it. Thats why its so important to find someone who: a) has a life that will not be upset by the outcome b) is willing to invest the time to really understand what youre going through and c) has the skills background and/or experience to provide great counsel. But its pretty rare"
X Link 2024-05-20T19:54Z 100.2K followers, 16.1K engagements

"Its far better to take the long shot at uncertain but momentous success than to take the sure shot at mediocrity"
X Link 2024-05-21T17:06Z 100.2K followers, 43.9K engagements

"My first startup was candy arbitrage. I would buy candy for [--] cents at the grocery store and sell it at school for $1. And Ive heard that exact same story from so many other founders that Ive come to believe its a genetic marker for successful entrepreneurs"
X Link 2024-05-24T00:30Z 106.3K followers, 31.9K engagements

"At Netflix when we were still shipping DVDs our most common customer service ticket was for a lost or stolen disc. And our response was remarkably simple and consistent: we shipped them another one. Immediately. No questions asked. At a cost of around $20 per DVD. Could our customers have been defrauding us by just keeping the disc and reporting it stolen Maybe. But Ive always believed that most people are honest. So why not make things easy for the 98% of the people who are honest rather than making it hard for everyone just to snare the 2% who are bad actors. Its simply bad business to"
X Link 2024-05-24T04:13Z 104K followers, 121.3K engagements

"Love the problem"
X Link 2024-05-25T16:46Z 104K followers, 24.7K engagements

"No business plan survives a real collision with a customer. Collide with reality as soon as possible to get the feedback you need"
X Link 2024-05-27T02:07Z 104K followers, 19.6K engagements

"Do more. Think less"
X Link 2024-05-27T23:23Z 104K followers, 97.9K engagements

"Thats the truth. Being a founder is hard. Its extremely lonely. You are working on something that no one believes in that you've been told time and time again will never work. It's you against the world. Being a founder sounds like fun. But the reality is that its brutal. Being a founder sounds like fun. But the reality is that its brutal"
X Link 2024-05-27T23:30Z 105.2K followers, 57.5K engagements

"Theres only one way to eat an apple. And thats small bites one at a time with each bite starting where the last bite left off. It's not much different when you're trying to do anything new"
X Link 2024-05-29T01:09Z 104K followers, 12.2K engagements

"@sharinganlou Search for pain. View the world as an imperfect place. And fall in love with trying to solve problems the skills will come through action"
X Link 2024-05-31T20:53Z 105.1K followers, [----] engagements

"Nobody knows anything isnt an indictment. Its a reminder. An encouragement"
X Link 2024-05-31T23:55Z 105.2K followers, 18.6K engagements

"Do something that hasnt been done before"
X Link 2024-06-01T17:44Z 106.1K followers, 57.6K engagements

"Focus doesn't mean you're obsessive from dusk till dawn. It means picking the appropriate time to complete the necessary tasks and giving yourself time to breathe. In short you don't necessarily need to get up at 4:30 am to become a successful entrepreneur. It's a matter of organization"
X Link 2024-06-02T02:22Z 105.5K followers, 23.6K engagements

"To be scared is to be human and the best way to get over your fear of starting something new is by taking baby steps"
X Link 2024-06-04T17:05Z 106.1K followers, 14.8K engagements

"This is the WORST thing to say when pitching me an idea:"
X Link 2024-06-05T06:29Z 106.1K followers, 39.2K engagements

"One of the best ways to solve a problem the first time is simply to trust your customers"
X Link 2024-06-06T06:01Z 106.1K followers, 13.2K engagements

"The greatest ingredient for success is not your ability to predict the future that's nearly impossible. It's your ability to prepare and put yourself in a position to take advantage of whatever happens"
X Link 2024-06-12T15:52Z 106.1K followers, 36.1K engagements

"What happens if your idea doesnt work What happens if your test fails if nobody orders your product or joins your club What if sales dont go up and customer complaints dont go down What if you get halfway through writing your novel and get writers block What if after dozens of tries even hundreds of attempts you still havent seen your dream become anything close to real Heres the answer: you have to learn to love the problem not the solution. Thats how you stay engaged when things take longer than you expected"
X Link 2024-06-20T01:28Z 106.4K followers, 28K engagements

"Recently I came across this diagram mapping out the time it took for different companies (including Looker which I co-founded) to make the journey from idea to Product-Market fit and the results arenot surprising at all. Across the board the earlier you get a product into the world the sooner you find your fit. Whats most interesting to me is how clearly this pushes back on the idea that if you spend a longer time working on your product before launch itll succeed sooner. But if you look at the chart theres basically no correlationwaiting three years to launch your product doesnt speed up its"
X Link 2024-06-24T18:41Z 106.6K followers, 147.4K engagements

"The question Im probably asked most frequently is When should I give up Its a great question and I confess I still dont 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 work b) running out of money and c) losing interest. And everyones balance is different. I have a friend whos a good enough entrepreneur to keep things alive forever but not good enough to ever reach escape velocity. Shes got plenty of determination and shes not running out of money but without a real leap in engagement its just"
X Link 2024-06-28T03:04Z 106.5K followers, 10.6K engagements

"Fundraising doesnt make your business better. It just buys thetimeto make your business better"
X Link 2024-07-08T01:15Z 106.6K followers, 43.1K engagements

"The best part of being an angel investor isnt the (unpredictable) financial return but the chance to watch other entrepreneurs struggle to make their dreams come true. And if it doesnt work out this time Im sure it will eventually"
X Link 2024-07-10T22:13Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements

"As the co-founder of [--] startups I know when its time to step aside. President Biden like I once did now faces a momentous decision that will define his legacy. [--] years ago I was the CEO of Netflix the startup I had co-founded several years earlier. And for those first exciting years my blend of passion and creativity was exactly what the company needed"
X Link 2024-07-18T22:25Z 107.1K followers, 50.9K engagements

"Second like many entrepreneurs I had always dreamed of being the CEO of a big successful company. But that night I wondered if that dream might in fact be two different dreams. And if I wanted the big successful company dream to come true I may have to give up on the CEO one. I was in an impossible situation. My most important job as CEO was ensuring the right employees were in the right seats. And now I was being forced to turn that lens on myself. I had often told people: Its the rule of the jungle: lead follow or get out of the way. But I never thought it would ever apply to me"
X Link 2024-07-18T22:25Z 107.1K followers, 28.3K engagements

"At the time my decision about whether to step aside for the good of the company felt cosmically significant. But in President Bidens cases it actually is. Despite his outward confidence Im sure President Biden is wrestling with this decision. I know he fears for the future of democracy and sees defeating Donald Trump as an existential imperative. I know he wants the United States to continue to be safe prosperous and equitable. I know that he firmly believes he is the best possible person to deliver on these promises. And four years ago he might have been"
X Link 2024-07-18T22:25Z 107.1K followers, 26.3K engagements

"Ingredients for success: [--]. Practice creative ideation [--]. Get the right people around you [--]. Focus"
X Link 2024-07-22T20:57Z 107.2K followers, 15K engagements

"Modern media is self-correcting. If something you create is terrible well then the algorithm would only show it to a handful of people sparing further humiliation. But if something you created was good its automatically amplified"
X Link 2024-08-01T17:02Z 107.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Over-planning and over-designing is often just over-thinking or plain old procrastination. When it comes to ideas its more effective to test ten bad ones than spend days to come up with something perfect"
X Link 2024-08-07T17:45Z 107.4K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Honesty and directness will do a lot more good than face-saving deception. By being courageous enough to state the difficult truth the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own"
X Link 2024-08-13T01:46Z 109.1K followers, 11K engagements

"Please get your idea out of your head and collide it with reality"
X Link 2024-09-01T03:09Z 109.1K followers, 43.4K engagements

"Sometimes despite our best efforts things just dont work out. Or to put it a different way shit happens"
X Link 2024-09-10T01:22Z 109.1K followers, 13.2K engagements

"The truth is that no business plan survives a collision with a real customer"
X Link 2024-09-15T17:26Z 109.1K followers, 17.3K engagements

"You pick what your customers want not what your entrenched business model may require you to do"
X Link 2024-09-22T03:12Z 109.1K followers, 16.2K engagements

"Too many people are drawn to entrepreneurship for the wrong reasons. They are doing it because they want to be rich or famous or powerful. But of course once they start they spend their days doing things that have nothing to do with being rich famous or powerful they quickly give up. The most successful entrepreneurs are motivated by something else solving problems. There's always going to be a new problem a new challenge. That's what makes being an entrepreneur so rewarding. It never stops"
X Link 2024-09-27T21:06Z 109.1K followers, 18.3K engagements

"Iteration not ideation is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas a lot of bad ideas if you want to end up with a good one. You have to stop thinking and start doing"
X Link 2024-10-21T03:25Z 133.7K followers, 32.5K engagements

"One of the most frequent questions I get asked is how do I know when to give up But Ive come to believe that this is an imaginary question. True entrepreneurs almost never ask that. We are just not wired that way. There is always one more thing to try. One more possibility that just might work"
X Link 2024-11-12T15:22Z 109K followers, 11K engagements

"Why havent you started"
X Link 2024-11-14T18:35Z 109.3K followers, 18.3K engagements

"The best time to start testing your idea was yesterday. And the second best time is today"
X Link 2024-11-27T19:48Z 110.1K followers, 14.4K engagements

"Nolan Bushnell the co-founder of Atari once said something that has always resonated with me. Everyone who has taken a shower has had an idea he said. But its the people who get out of the shower towel off and do something about it that make the difference"
X Link 2024-12-02T17:22Z 112K followers, 34.6K engagements

"Dont follow some kind of influencer-approved have-it-all schedule where every day has you exercising meditating hustling focusing socializing and crushing every presentation (all while eating a healthy diet and getting plenty of sleep). In the real world nobody can do that. Not every day at least. Whats important is to figure out your way of finding balance on whatever schedule you can make work. Because theres always a way to make balance workeven if it means accepting a little imbalance now and then"
X Link 2024-12-03T18:24Z 112.1K followers, 13.7K engagements

"Progress is rarely continuous. Entrepreneurial growth happens at geologic pace - 99% of progress in 1% of time like landslides and eruptions with long inactive periods between"
X Link 2024-12-12T23:36Z 112.2K followers, 16.1K engagements

"As entrepreneurs or artists or just people with dreams the worst thing you can do is get so caught up in planning the perfect idea that you never get around to actually. well doing it. Dont build perfect castles in your mind"
X Link 2024-12-26T16:22Z 112.3K followers, 14.7K engagements

"Trust your gut but also test it. Before you do anything concrete the data has to agree"
X Link 2024-12-31T00:31Z 112.5K followers, 11.7K engagements

"Working hard is a choice not a requirement. Jensen Huang clearly thrives working dawn to dusk seven days a week - he's doing what he loves. But it's a disservice to imply every successful company requires that level of obsession. It doesn't. Success certainly correlates with hard work not obsessive work. For every founder who works continuously and succeeds hundreds work just as hard and fail. There are scores of factors that go into a company's success (luck being paramount) so if you beat the odds and become that one in a thousand you never really know if your company succeeded because of"
X Link 2025-01-06T23:20Z 112.6K followers, 30.7K engagements

"I always believed things would be successful. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out of money. Even when the metrics were all upside down. I always have confidence that I'll figure something out. That things are going to work out fine"
X Link 2025-01-11T23:22Z 112.6K followers, 16.8K engagements

"Interviewing is a horribly inexact science. You just cant know how well someone will perform in a role until theyve actually had a chance to do it. So be careful not to set up a hiring process so rigid and exacting that it guarantees you only hire great people.Not only will you slow your hiring to a crawl but youll have certainly turned awaydozens of people who would have been amazing - had you only given them the chance to show you that they could be"
X Link 2025-01-13T06:35Z 112.6K followers, 12.8K engagements

"Trust your gut but also test it. Before you do anything concrete the data has to agree"
X Link 2025-01-21T15:39Z 112.8K followers, 11.9K engagements

"If it looks easy it just might mean you dont understand it"
X Link 2025-02-23T15:40Z 114.1K followers, 22.4K engagements

"The truth is that no business plan survives a collision with a real customer. The trick is to take your idea and set it on a collision course with reality as soon as possible"
X Link 2025-04-14T20:26Z 115.3K followers, 12.7K engagements

"About 1% of a companys value comes from its originating idea. The figuring it out part is responsible for the other 99%. For example: Slacks original concept was as an internal communication tool for a gaming company called Tiny Speck. When the gaming project failed the team pivoted and Slack became a highly successful team collaboration platform. Instagram started out as a location-based social network called Burbn. The founders noticed that the photo-sharing part of Burbn was its most popular feature so they shifted their focus to what became Instagram. Pinterest started as an app called"
X Link 2025-04-22T00:41Z 115.5K followers, 26.2K engagements

"I tell every entrepreneur I know; Dont fall in love with the idea fall in love with the problem. Youre going to dump your idea the minute you realize its flaws. But the problem Its only going to get richer more interesting and more nuanced the more you learn about it"
X Link 2025-04-23T05:54Z 115.5K followers, 29.4K engagements

"Most founders dont really need help with what they think they need. (technology go-to-market fundraising etc) Instead its the unexpected stuff Getting along (or parting ways) with a co-founder. Building and managing a board. Firing someone. Keeping your home-life intact. All the things no one talks about - but are just as critical to your success as everything else"
X Link 2025-05-04T02:10Z 115.6K followers, 14.2K engagements

"If you're just starting out.for God's sake DONT quit your day job don't drop out of school. Start small. Theres going to be to be this long period of figuring it outdoing it prematurely is crazy"
X Link 2025-05-14T18:33Z 116K followers, 15.6K engagements

"The Starbucks Test:"
X Link 2025-05-19T20:15Z 116.1K followers, 35.6K engagements

"Epiphanies are rare. And when they appear in origin stories theyre often oversimplified or just plain false. We like these tales because they align with a romantic idea about inspiration and genius. We want our Isaac Newtons to be sitting under the apple tree when the apple falls. We want Archimedes in his bathtub. But the truth is usually more complicated than that. The truth is that for every good idea there are a thousand bad ones. And sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference"
X Link 2025-05-24T23:15Z 116.2K followers, [----] engagements

"If youre building an MVPyoure building too much. You want to build an MUP. A Minimal Unviable Product. It doesnt need to be repeatable or scalable. Just enough to prove that someone really wants what youre building. Because even after [--] years I still have to remind myself that it doesnt need to be perfect"
X Link 2025-05-28T23:29Z 116.2K followers, 25.6K engagements

"1% of a company's value can be attributed to the original idea; the remaining 99% comes from execution"
X Link 2025-06-04T00:54Z 116.5K followers, 49K engagements

"Ideas come and go. But problems are there forever"
X Link 2025-06-09T16:21Z 116.4K followers, [----] engagements

"At MacWarehouse my third startup occasionally our inventory would get out of balance and wed mistakenly take an order for a product that wasnt actually in stock. Once we realized our error rather than risking their disappointment we would send someone out to purchase the identical item at retaileven if it cost far more than what we were selling it for. I also got a report every evening listing the handful of customers who despite our efforts were not going to get the product they had ordered when they expected it. I would personally call every one of them let them know what was happening"
X Link 2025-06-11T18:10Z 116.5K followers, [----] engagements

"The first version of anything you build should embarrass you. If it doesnt you started too late"
X Link 2025-06-24T15:47Z 121.8K followers, 42.9K engagements

"Pivot is a fancy word for we were wrong"
X Link 2025-07-04T15:20Z 122.3K followers, 52.1K engagements

"People love to say fail fast. But what they really mean is learn fast. And the learning only happens when youre honest about why something didnt work"
X Link 2025-07-05T15:45Z 122.2K followers, 20.4K engagements

"People think entrepreneurs are risk-takers. But actually were risk-managers. We try to take calculated risks. And we always have a plan B. Usually a plan C too"
X Link 2025-07-06T15:00Z 122.2K followers, 20.6K engagements

"Hard work is a myth"
X Link 2025-07-06T19:59Z 122.3K followers, 51K engagements

"My job isnt to have all the answers. My job is to hire people smarter than me tell them where were going and get out of their way. Then let them solve the problems I cant"
X Link 2025-07-06T23:32Z 122.3K followers, 32.8K engagements

"Your first idea wont be your best idea. Your hundredth idea probably wont be either. But somewhere in there if you keep testing and learning youll find something that works"
X Link 2025-07-07T17:32Z 122.3K followers, 21.4K engagements

"The moment you start protecting people from failure youve stopped them from succeeding. Give people the freedom to mess up"
X Link 2025-07-08T16:35Z 122.3K followers, 21.3K engagements

"Be honest. Honesty and directness do a lot more good than face-saving deception. Because by being courageous enough to state the difficult truth the most important reputation that you will preserve is your own"
X Link 2025-07-10T21:55Z 122.3K followers, 13.4K engagements

"I resolved not to be one of those entrepreneurs on their 7th startup and 7th wife. The thing I'm most proud of isn't that I co-founded Netflix - it's that I built it while staying married to my best friend and raising kids who still (at least I think) want to have dinner with me"
X Link 2025-07-11T22:31Z 122.4K followers, 66.7K engagements

"The most important step that anyone can take to turn their dreams into reality is a simple one: You just need to start"
X Link 2025-07-13T15:18Z 122.4K followers, 26K engagements

"Mountain guiding taught me everything I needed to know about founding companies. You plan for the worst hope for the best and keep everyone alive long enough to reach the summit"
X Link 2025-07-16T02:31Z 122.4K followers, [----] engagements

"The thing is I just always believed things would succeed. Even when everyone else said my ideas were ridiculous. Even when we were almost out of money. Even when the metrics were all upside down. I always have confidence that I'll figure something out. That things are going to work out fine"
X Link 2025-07-24T05:58Z 122.4K followers, 23.1K engagements

"Being wrong is expensive. But being wrong and not admitting it is even more expensive. Learn the difference"
X Link 2025-07-28T16:38Z 123.1K followers, 24K engagements

"Everyones searching for the next big thing. But let me tell you a secret. What matters is solving a real problem for real people in a way that works"
X Link 2025-08-01T16:09Z 123.3K followers, 34.4K engagements

"Not to mention some of the best companies Ive seen were built by founders who heard no dozens of times. The hard truth is that a VCs job is to generate returns for their investors. Thats it. Not your feelings. And sometimes that means passing on great ideas or people. The hard truth is that a VCs job is to generate returns for their investors. Thats it. Not your feelings. And sometimes that means passing on great ideas or people"
X Link 2025-08-02T18:34Z 123.3K followers, [----] engagements

"There is no such thing as a good idea. Every idea is bad. And your job is to figure out why"
X Link 2025-08-04T16:56Z 123.3K followers, 39.3K engagements

"I once had an opposing lawyer make a ridiculous contract request; something that had not been in our handshake agreement. I pushed back hard and he just sheepishly looked at me shrugged and with a slight smile said "Don't ask Don't get" At the time that infuriated me. But since then (this was nearly [--] years ago) I've mellowed and I've now come to think that "don't ask don't get" is some of the best advice you can get. Not just in business but in life"
X Link 2025-08-13T22:03Z 123.4K followers, 12.5K engagements

"Most people have a kind of survivor bias about luck. When something wonderful happens we think: How lucky But we dont usually acknowledge all the times when preparation comes to nothing"
X Link 2025-08-28T22:06Z 123.5K followers, [----] engagements

"I still see a lot of people talking about disrupting industries. But they forget most disruption starts with someone noticing a really annoying problem that everyone else just accepts as normal"
X Link 2025-09-03T06:06Z 123.8K followers, 23.4K engagements

"Every entrepreneur makes hundreds of choices with zero information to guide them. If you can find someone to help with those choices you will have a huge advantage"
X Link 2025-09-08T19:10Z 123.8K followers, 11.3K engagements

"For the last few years Ive had a simple rule: no non-essential one-on-one. If youre one of the (many) people Ive said no to its not that you arent someone Id love to meet (or Zoom with or hear your pitch or review your deck). Its just that I get thousands of these requests and if Im not extremely careful Ill have lots of fun meeting people but not enough time to do the work I really want to do (not to mention surf run bike ski socialize read parent spend time with my partner etc.)"
X Link 2025-09-17T16:29Z 123.8K followers, [----] engagements

"How about this @lmgriffjohnson and @JoshRichards for every retweet that this Tweet gets within the next [--] hours Ill increase my donation by a dollar - up to $5K. I appreciate the initiative youre both taking at such a young age to make a difference. Lets go Just got on @pearpopofficial Ill be dueting two peoples TikToks with all proceeds going to the @barstoolsports @stoolpresidente @EKANardini Barstool Fund for small businesses torn apart by COVID. Get your duet here https://t.co/KhgUtsz1hy Just got on @pearpopofficial Ill be dueting two peoples TikToks with all proceeds going to the"
X Link 2021-01-17T01:48Z 157.9K followers, [----] engagements

"We were competing against Blockbuster. They were doing $6 Billion per year. They had [-----] employees. They had [----] stores. Even the idea of taking them on was crazy. But that's what an entrepreneur does. They do the thing that everyone says will never work"
X Link 2022-11-05T18:58Z 157.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Reed and I were looking at ideas for a long time before we came up with the one that eventually became Netflix. There was no "aha" moment. We brainstormed all kinds of crazy stuff from personalized shampoo to custom dog food"
X Link 2022-11-19T19:46Z 157.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I HIGHLY recommend starting EVERYTHING as a side project. Validate your concept before starting your business"
X Link 2022-11-24T22:39Z 157.9K followers, [----] engagements

"I've passed these same rules on to my own children and the original copy hangs next to my bathroom mirror"
X Link 2022-12-01T23:33Z 157.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Ive been doing angel investing for about [--] years. Ive probably made close to [---] investments. But after a few years of doing it I came to realize it was almost impossible for me to make money at it. 🧵"
X Link 2022-12-13T01:48Z 157.9K followers, [----] engagements

"So I changed my philosophy. My criteria would no longer be who do I think is most likely to be successful (since I didnt think I could tell). But rather who do I want to help take their shot"
X Link 2022-12-13T01:48Z 157.9K followers, [----] engagements

"You can automate later. Focus on innovating"
X Link 2022-12-15T16:33Z 157.9K followers, 496.2K engagements

"Blockbuster laughed us out of their offices. We were crushed desperate and out of options. But sometimes the only way out is through"
X Link 2023-01-04T18:39Z 157.9K followers, 3.6M engagements

"Nobody knows anything. True of Hollywood true of Silicon Valley true of anywhere innovation takes place. No one knows if your idea will work or not before you actually collide it with reality and try it out. So start testing today"
X Link 2023-01-11T17:59Z 157.9K followers, 130.5K engagements

"When I have an idea my usual plan of attack is less plan more attack"
X Link 2023-01-15T06:16Z 157.9K followers, 217.1K engagements

"The growth of the @TheAllInPod demonstrates the power of honest dialogue. Its so attractive and rare. Too many people hedge today. You are not your ideas. Its OK to be disliked be wrong argue with your friends and change your mind. @jason"
X Link 2023-01-17T01:13Z 157.9K followers, 495K engagements

"My advice is simple: Find out what you want to do then spend a long time ideally with a group of really brilliant people figuring out how best to do it"
X Link 2023-01-20T17:08Z 157.9K followers, 353.6K engagements

"When you look at social media it seems like founders all live like rockstars. But this belies the reality. The truth is being a founder can be one of the toughest loneliest tasks youll ever face"
X Link 2023-01-21T08:58Z 157.9K followers, 180.1K engagements

"When I speak at business schools Im shocked at the amount of people who want to be wealth managers. More students want to manage other peoples wealth than create their own from scratch. What are we teaching people"
X Link 2023-01-22T04:18Z 157.9K followers, 763.7K engagements

"Any founder who doesn't acknowledge the role that luck played in their success is fooling themselves"
X Link 2023-01-25T15:31Z 157.9K followers, 641.2K engagements

"Never underestimate the value of being in the right place at the right time"
X Link 2023-01-26T20:16Z 157.9K followers, 268.1K engagements

"Ships are safest in port but thats not what ships are built for. Ideas are much the same"
X Link 2023-01-30T02:02Z 157.9K followers, 264.5K engagements

"The moment I first felt the real pressure of being an entrepreneur was when I looked down from our conference room window onto the parking lot and thought "Oh my god I'm responsible for all those car payments"
X Link 2023-02-07T23:21Z 157.9K followers, 162.3K engagements

"Not sure who needs to hear thisbut you need to get your idea out of your head and collide it with reality"
X Link 2023-02-10T05:58Z 157.9K followers, 285K engagements

"Actually my definition of success is a bit different: You may lose your wife you may lose your dog your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like. You may lose your wife you may lose your dog your mother may hate you. None of those things matter. What matters is that you achieve success and become free. Then you can do whatever you like"
X Link 2023-02-15T17:36Z 157.9K followers, 978K engagements

"Im troubled by the over-glorification of entrepreneurial success at all costs. The things Im proudest of arent my start-up accomplishmentsits that I accomplished them while maintaining balance in my life.Way harder - and way more important"
X Link 2023-02-20T21:53Z 157.9K followers, 188.6K engagements

"A coming wave of disruptive companies will be built by layering domain expertise over GPT3. The best of these will: - solve complex problems not just automate simple tasks. - be exceptionally nimble - evolving as fast as the underlying AI does. - use usage as a metric not number of users. There will be a lot of noise. Few will survive"
X Link 2023-02-24T03:30Z 157.9K followers, 2.2M engagements

"You need to take chances and chase dreams that look irrational to the outside world. Thats the nature of pursuing unlikely opportunities. You have to do things that will make other people think you're an idiot"
X Link 2023-02-26T22:03Z 157.9K followers, 197.1K engagements

"If your plan is to fill a gap in the market that the established players have missed first figure out why they missed it. In my experience the biggest players in a mature industry know their industry pretty well. Yet Ive seencountless business plans based on the notion that theres an opportunity that the established players have missed; often a neglected market or an overlooked efficiency. But heres the thing: it always looks easier from the outside. If the leader in a streaming media space isnt offering a certain kind of content well sure its possible that theyre unaware that theres demand"
X Link 2023-02-28T17:51Z 157.9K followers, 493.2K engagements

"Some of the best entrepreneurs I know arent the A grade students theyre the B and the C students. They are the ones who managed to get through their education without having all the risk taking squeezed out of them. Its unfortunate that in the rat race to get into the best colleges and then to get into the best grad programs were teaching people that the most important skill is to figure out what the teacher thinks will be the right answer rather than to follow our own curiosity. But in entrepreneurship there isnt a right answer. You need to be willing to start down a path without knowing"
X Link 2023-03-01T20:20Z 157.9K followers, 862.2K engagements

"Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. I first heard that from a banker friend of mine.Its an old Wall Street expression and its so true. Ever since my first job in Silicon Valley Ive always cashed in some stock options as soon as they vested (if possible). The way I saw it if the stock kept going up Id have plenty of unvested shares to ride the wave.And if I did a good job for the company Id keep getting more. But if the stock went downor the company foldedbetter to have taken something off the table than nothing. At Looker Lloyd Tabb and I were both 99% certain that the"
X Link 2023-04-08T19:01Z 157.9K followers, 666.3K engagements

"We launched Netflix [--] years ago this week. In celebration Ill be sharing some of my favorite memoriesfrom the initial idea through the years I spent at the company. Welcome to the Netflix Chronicles. Well start with the question I get asked more than any other: where did the idea for Netflix come from When people ask me this question they want an epiphany moment. Theyre looking for the story about two guys who cant make their rent and boom Theres AirBnB.They want the guy who cant get a cab on New Years Eve and ahaTheres Uber.Or the guy who gets stuck with a $40 late fee on a movie and eureka"
X Link 2023-04-11T01:24Z 157.9K followers, 628.9K engagements

"OK Reed Ive got another one. Personalized shampoo Reed shifted his eyes from the road to glance over at me. He raised his eyebrows quizzically. No this is a good one I assured him. Well have people cut off a lock of their hair. Theyll mail it to us and our team of hair scientists will formulate a custom blend. Theyll automatically get sent a fresh bottle every month Reed didnt say anything turning his attention back to the road flipping on his blinker and moving to pass a sand truck that was slowly laboring its way ahead of us up Highway [--]. From the outside Im sure he seemed to be just"
X Link 2023-04-12T01:07Z 157.9K followers, 466.4K engagements

"25 years ago In [----] Reed and I flew to Seattle to talk about selling Netflix to Amazon. The meeting went well and Jeff Bezos floated a price of $15 million. That wouldnt have been a bad payday for less than [--] months work but we thought we were on to something. We had finally gotten the engine to turn over so we werent quite ready to put it in park and hand someone else the keys. Looking back I know now that this trip was about much more than just selling the company. It turns out that theres nothing like having the option to get out that reinforces your desire to stay in. For Reed and I"
X Link 2023-04-13T00:20Z 157.9K followers, 2.1M engagements

"Jesus Reed where are you taking us Reed looked down at the MapQuest printout he was using to navigate us probably wondering the same thing. We were in Seattle. The street we were walking on looked like a movie-set of Skid Row. There was trash on the sidewalk broken glass in the window casements. We passed The Liberty Loans Pawn Shop. The Fair Hair Wig Store. And then a few doors down another run-down four-story brick building. I could just see into the dimly lit lobby. On the wall behind a faded wood desk was a large sign readingAmazon. com Reed had gotten a call a few days earlier from Joy"
X Link 2023-04-13T03:05Z 157.9K followers, 308.2K engagements

"In [----] at the depth of the dot com crash Reed Hastings and I tried to sell Netflix to Blockbuster for $50 million dollars. They laughed us out of the room. Today the company they could have bought for $50 million has a market cap north of $150 billion. And the company that once had [----] stores is down to a single one. But what lesson to take from this That its possible for a handful of people with no prior experience in the video business to take down a [--] billion dollar category leading company Sure. But I think the more important lesson - a lesson that Blockbuster learned too late - is"
X Link 2023-04-13T14:32Z 157.9K followers, 2M engagements

"In [----] Blockbuster was the movie rental king with [-----] stores and [----] employees. Reed Hastings and I on the other hand were just two Silicon Valley geeks with a DVD-rental-by-mail idea. Wed been struggling since [----] to find a way to make it work and by the summer of [----] we were finally seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Our no-due-dates no-late-fees subscription model was a hit. Customers were pouring in and the company was growing like crazy. Running a subscription business takes a lot of cash since you pay acquisition costs up front while the revenue comes in over time. But it was"
X Link 2023-04-14T01:50Z 157.9K followers, 3.1M engagements

"We launched Netflix [--] years ago today. We crashed our servers ran out of mailing labels and ended the day with [---] customers. Today we have more than [---] million. Back then I just wanted to start a company that sold something on the internet. We believed there had to be a better way to rent movies. We ended up proving that a handful of people with a crazy idea and a bit of determination can change the world. Im proud of what Netflix has become and proud of what we accomplished. And Im certainly proud of Netflix and Chill. (I never saw that coming). But Im proudest of the fact that I didnt"
X Link 2023-04-14T14:36Z 157.9K followers, 1.1M engagements

"Exactly [--] years ago today - on April 14th [----] at 8am in the morning Eric Meyer leaned forward tapped a few keys on his laptop and launched Netflix to the world. That first day was a long one. We crashed our servers. Ran out of mailing labels. Scrambled to get everything to the post office in time. But we ended that day with [---] customers. Today Netflix has more than [---] million of them. Starting with a dozen people squeezed into a tiny office with dirty green carpet Netflix now has more than [-----] employees. It has customers in nearly every country in the world. It produces its own movies."
X Link 2023-04-14T17:11Z 157.9K followers, 3.3M engagements

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