Netflix co-founder

Marc Randolph's story

He named Netflix, ran it for a year, then stepped aside in 1999.

Marc Randolph was born in Chappaqua, New York, on April 29, 1958. He studied geology at Hamilton College and went on to start several companies before Netflix.

In 1997 he and Reed Hastings founded Netflix. Randolph became the first CEO. He named the company and designed its early interface.

After about a year as CEO he handed the role to Hastings in 1999. He stayed with the company and left in 2002, the year Netflix went public.

In September 2019 he published That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea with Little, Brown and Company. He is married to Lorraine Kiernan and has three children.

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Where and when was Marc Randolph born?

Marc Randolph was born on April 29, 1958, in Chappaqua, New York. He is 68 years old. He is the eldest child of Stephen Bernays Randolph and Muriel Lipchik, and belongs to the Bernays family. Sigmund Freud was his great-grand uncle.

Where did Marc Randolph go to college?

He earned a degree in geology from Hamilton College in New York.

Who is Marc Randolph's wife?

He married Lorraine Kiernan in 1987. They have three children.

What was Marc Randolph's role at Netflix?

He co-founded Netflix and was its first CEO. He named the company and designed its early interface. He handed the CEO job to Reed Hastings in 1999 and left the company in 2002. His book That Will Never Work came out in September 2019.