Marc Randolph Biography
Marc Randolph is a tech entrepreneur, advisor, and speaker from the United States. He is Netflix’s co-founder and first CEO. Randolph’s first job out of college, in 1981, was at New York’s Cherry Lane Music Company.
How old is Marc Randolph?- Age
He is 64 years old as of April 2022. He was born Marc Bernays Randolph on April 29, 1958, in Chappaqua, New York, United States of America.
Marc Randolph Education
He graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a geology degree.
Marc Randolph Height- Weight
Marc stands at a height of 5.6 feet tall and weighs 67 kg.
Marc Randolph’s Parents – Father
Randolph was born and raised in Chappaqua, New York, to a Jewish family as the eldest child of Stephen Bernays Randolph, an Austrian-born nuclear engineer, and Muriel Lipchik of Brooklyn, New York, the United States of America.
Marc Randolph Married- Wife
Randolph is happily married to Lorraine Kiernan since 1987. Together they have three children.
Marc Randolph Career
Randolph’s first job after graduating from college was at Cherry Lane Music Company in New York in 1981. Randolph, who was put in charge of the company’s small mail-order operation, taught himself direct mail and marketing techniques while experimenting with different ways to sell Cherry Lane’s catalog of sheet music directly to consumers. Randolph’s interest in using computer software to track customers’ purchasing behavior would eventually influence his decision to create a user interface at Netflix that also functioned as a market research platform. He expanded on his theories about using direct mail to influence and retain customers while doing circulation work for the US version of MacUser magazine in 1984.
Randolph made the connection between overnight delivery and improved customer retention while co-founding computer mail-orders firms MacWarehouse and MicroWarehouse with Peter Godfrey and his partners about a year later. The discovery was later critical to Netflix’s growth and survival: the company’s subscriber base first grew and cut into Blockbuster Inc revenues in cities where Netflix offered overnight DVD delivery. Beginning in 1988, Randolph spent the early days of the Internet building direct-to-consumer marketing operations at software giant Borland International. He left Borland in 1995 for a series of brief stints at Silicon Valley start-ups, including marketing director at desktop scanner maker Visioneer and founding team member of Integrity QA, a developer of automated software testing products.
Randolph has volunteered at MiddCORE as a mentor. and a Looker Data Sciences board member. He is also the Belk Entrepreneurship Center’s Entrepreneur in Residence at High Point University. Aside from mentoring, he is a keynote speaker on entrepreneurship, leadership, and innovation. He travels the world speaking about his Netflix experience and the lessons he has learned from his other startup investments. That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea was published by Little, Brown, and Company in September 2019.
Marc Randolph’s Net Worth
Marc has an estimated net worth of 3.3 million dollars.