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That Will Never Work

The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

By: Marc Randolph

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That Will Never Work

The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

By: Marc Randolph

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founder and first CEO Marc Randolph. Once upon a time, brick-and-mortar video stores were king. Late fees were ubiquitous, video-streaming unheard was of, and widespread DVD adoption seemed about as imminent as flying cars. Indeed, these were the widely accepted laws of the land in 1997, when Marc Randolph had an idea. It was a simple thought—leveraging the internet to rent movies—and was just one of many more and far worse proposals, like personalized baseball bats and a shampoo delivery service, that Randolph would pitch to his business partner, Reed Hastings, on their commute to work each morning. But Hastings was intrigued, and the pair—with Hastings as the primary investor and Randolph as the CEO—founded a company. Now with over 150 million subscribers, Netflix's triumph feels inevitable, but the twenty first century's most disruptive start up began with few believers and calamity at every turn. From having to pitch his own mother on being an early investor, to the motel conference room that served as a first office, to server crashes on launch day, to the now-infamous meeting when Netflix brass pitched Blockbuster to acquire them, Marc Randolph's transformational journey exemplifies how anyone with grit, gut instincts, and determination can change the world—even with an idea that many think will never work. What emerges, though, isn't just the inside story of one of the world's most iconic companies. Full of counter-intuitive concepts and written in binge-worthy prose, it answers some of our most fundamental questions about taking that leap of faith in business or in life: How do you begin? How do you weather disappointment and failure? How do you deal with success? What even is success? From idea generation to team building to knowing when it's time to let go, That Will Never Work is not only the ultimate follow-your-dreams parable, but also one of the most dramatic and insightful entrepreneurial stories of our time.

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336

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Little, Brown

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0316530212

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9780316530217

Reading Raymond Carver

By: Randolph Paul Runyon

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Reading Raymond Carver

By: Randolph Paul Runyon

In this rewarding study of one of the most important writers of recent decades, Randolph Paul Runyon reveals an ambitious metafiction beneath the terse style of Carver's works and places Carver squarely in the context of the minimalist debate. Runyon's reading ably demonstrates that Carver's stories, especially as they appear in his three major collections, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and Cathedral, and the seven new stories in Where I'm Calling From, are strikingly intricate and cast their subtlest spells by indirection. He reveals the intricate metaphorical connections, the structural overlaps, that are overlooked in past Carver criticism. Runyon also finds purposeful arrangement in Carver's short story collections, inviting the reader to explore another text, one written in the interstices between the stories. Each story echoes elements from its immediate predecessor, just as the subconscious, according to Freud, weaves the events of the immediately preceding day into a dream. Freud's relevance extends well to the troubling tension between fathers and sons in Carver's work and to a recurring maternal Medusa. In his assessment of Carver's collections, Runyon also considers both the influence of the Bible and events in Carver's life.

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256

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Syracuse University Press

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0815625634

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9780815625636

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Agency, Metaphysics, and Responsibility

By: Randolph Clarke,Randolph K. Clarke

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Agency, Metaphysics, and Responsibility

By: Randolph Clarke,Randolph K. Clarke

Besides acting, we often omit to do or refrain from doing certain things. Omitting and refraining are not simply special cases of action; they require their own distinctive treatment. This book offers the first comprehensive account of these phenomena, addressing questions of metaphysics, agency, and moral responsibility.

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239

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199347522

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9780199347520

An Empire for Slavery

The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821--1865

By: Randolph B. Campbell

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An Empire for Slavery

The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821--1865

By: Randolph B. Campbell

Randolph B. ""Mike"" Campbell is a professor of history at The University of North Texas.

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321

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LSU Press

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0807161705

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9780807161708

The Virginia House-wife

By: Mary Randolph

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The Virginia House-wife

By: Mary Randolph

The difficulties I encountered when I first entered on the duties of a housekeeping life from the want of books sufficiently clear and concise to impart knowledge to a Tyro compelled me to study the subject and by actual experiment to reduce every thing in the culinary line to proper weights and measures.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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0872494233

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9780872494237

A Treatise on Wills

Vol. III

By: Thomas Jarman,Joseph Fitz Randolph,William Talcott

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A Treatise on Wills

Vol. III

By: Thomas Jarman,Joseph Fitz Randolph,William Talcott

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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946

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368630385

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9783368630386

Psychology

Themes and Variations

By: Weiten,Stephen F. Davis,Randolph A. Smith,Roger L. Thomas

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Psychology

Themes and Variations

By: Weiten,Stephen F. Davis,Randolph A. Smith,Roger L. Thomas

By Richard Stalling and Ronald Wasden. Important features of the Study Guide include the following: Review of Key Ideas, consisting of 20 to 30 learning objections and several questions or exercises relating to each objective. Review of Key Terms, with matching exercises from the chapter definitions. Review of Key People with matching exercises of the major researchers and theorists presented in each chapter. Self-Quizzes, which consist of 15-20 multiple choice questions.

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148

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Thomson Brooks/Cole

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0534087620

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9780534087623

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That Will Never Work

That Will Never Work

Reading Raymond Carver

Reading Raymond Carver

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An Empire for Slavery

An Empire for Slavery

The Virginia House-wife

The Virginia House-wife

A Treatise on Wills

A Treatise on Wills

Psychology

Psychology

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