Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Marc was co-founder of Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, as the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors.

Marc recently released his book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea. 

Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc's career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades. He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs including the co-founders of Looker Data which was recently sold to Google for $2.6B, and invested in numerous successful tech ventures.

He is a frequent speaker at industry events, works extensively with young entrepreneur programs, sits on the board of the environmental advocacy group 1% for the Planet, and chairs the National Outdoor Leadership School's Board of Trustees.

This was a wide-reaching conversation about the lessons learned from the early days of Netflix, back when they were still wrestling with making VHS and then DVD by mail, a compelling business model.

Expect to take many gems of wisdom and memorable anecdotes out of this one, including:

• Why Netflix turned down an 8-figure acquisition offer from Amazon after just a year of operating and before they had anything resembling a sustainable business model
• What happpened when Blockbuster turned down the opportunity to buy Netflix for just $50M;
• What truly differentiates success from failure at a tech startup - hint, it’s not genius; and
• How Netflix went about scaling its freedom-oriented, high performing culture from 7 people to 7,000

WIth that, strap yourself in for my conversation with the co-founder of Netflix, Marc Randolph.

Topics Discussed:

• Surfing
• What the initial inspiration for Netflix was
• Why ceativity is having many at bats
• Calamities that characterised Netflix’s early days
• Why business plans don’t survives a collision with a real customer.
• Why Netflix cannibalised its video sales revenues (most of its revenue) to pursue video rental by mail (none of its revenue)
• Turning down an acquisition offer from Amazon, even when Netflix had little going for it
• Being turned down by Blockbuster
• On stepping down from CEO and letting Reed Hastings take over
• How to fight the complacency that comes with success
• How to attract the best talent to your company, even if you can’t afford them
• Why culture is what you do, not what you say
• Why leadership is about helping people find their own way to the destination
• How to empower peopple to make decisions, instead of suffocate them with process
• How to scale culture
• Firing your team, even after they had made large sacrifices to join you
• What was the breakthrough that catapultued Netflix from startup to an actual business?
• Why Marc left Netflix shortly after its IPO in 2002
• What two very important things everybody should learn about themselves
• Marc’s date night and dedication to balance at Netflix
• Why more money doesn’t equal more happiness

Show Notes:

Book: https://amzn.to/2W5NuSl 

Twitter: @mbrandolph

Instagram: @thatwillneverwork

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Don Wettrick is the President and Founder of StartedUP, an organization dedicated to help transform the school culture toward innovation and enable student-led entrepreneurship.

He’s also Innovation Coordinator at Noblesville High School, and author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level." Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; CEO, and podcast host.

Don has lectured across the US, Europe, South America and Africa about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. Through his travel, he has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Ghana, and seeks to bring that entrepreneurial mindset into our classrooms. His podcast, StartEdUp, has featured some of the most successful entrepreneurs, authors, and thought leaders in the world- focusing on educational change.

Given my work with the Lemonade Stand program, I really enjoyed my conversation with Don, as we riffed on all things student entrepreneurship.

We covered myriad topics, including:

• The difference between teaching entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking
• Why the current tendency to play the victim card instead of take ownership is limiting the potential of today’s students and their contributions to the world; and
• Where today’s K12 school system falls short, and how to plug these gaps

This only scratches the surface of what was discussed, so sit back, and enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Don Wettrick.

Topics Discussed:

• Don’s mission
• Today’s jobs that didn’t exist 20 years ago
• The hedgehog theory
• Skills v attitude
• Conflicts of interest in the school system, often between parents and their children’s interests
• Open-source learning in the K12 classroom
• Creative ways to work within the constraints your current budget and system
• Collaborating with experts and mentors to augment the K12 learning experience
• Is STEM overrated?
• Can teachers only teach children to become teachers?
• Developing emotional fortitude and moving kids away from entitlement
• The school system often prepares kids to be compliant and execute set procedure, but not to challenge the status quo and adapt to changes
• Trojan Horse thinking
• Always be testing
• Create value for others first if you want to create value for yourself
• Strong opinions, weakly held
• The folly of standardized testing
• Why giving our youth comfortable upbringings can be their undoing in adult life

 Show notes:

1. StartEdUp: www.startedupinnovation.com
2. StartEdUp Foundation: https://startedupfoundation.org/
3. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donwettrick
4. Don’s book, Pure Genius: https://amzn.to/2BjSMQB 

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Kale Brock is an award nominated writer, filmmaker and speaker.

He’s the author of several books, including The Gut Healing Protocol, The Art Of Probiotic Nutrition, and Mandy Microbe’s Big Gut Adventure.

In his second documentary, The Longevity Film, Kale travels to the world’s ‘blue zones’, longevity cultures, to investigate the dietary & lifestyle factors which cause such unprecedented health statistics in these areas.

We unpacked Kale’s journey into the heart of these blue zones to unpack how their inhabitants attitude, community, nutrition and movement sees them living lives, on average, 5 to 10 years longer than those of us in the west. 

We challenge many long-held beliefs about health and wellness, and also attempt to answer that big question - what is happiness?

With that, sit back and enjoy, my conversation with Kale Brock.

Topics Discussed:

• Surfing
• The meaning of happiness
• Why happiness, the chemical state, is a pointless goal
• Longevity communities: Ikaria, Okinawa
• The value of stress
• The diminishing of our tribes
• Depression in the west
• The Meditteranean diet
• Human connection and deep conversation
• Reconciling contentment with ambition
• Devices and social media as a surrogate for self worth
• Veganism and fanaticism
• Why loneliness is worse than smoking
• Finding meaning in suffering
• Western wellness band-aids
• Nutrition in the blue zones
• Identity politics and tribalism 

Show Notes:

• Web: kalebrock.com/longevityfilm
• Instagram: @kalesbroccoli 

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Blake J. Harris is the bestselling author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation, which is currently being adapted into a mini-series by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

He’s also the author of History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality.

But we spent the better part of this conversation being nostalgic and unpacking the war that served as a backdrop to our childhood, that of Nintendo v Sega.

Expect to take out numerous business lessons from this one:

• The value of open v closed ecosystems
• How to differentiate yourself and dominate the market, even with a much smaller budget
• Why parent companies meddling in the affairs of their subsidiaries often ends in disaster

We unpack this and a whole lot more, so sit back and reminisce, as I bring you the one and only, Blake J Harris.

Topics Discussed:

• The gaming landscape in the 1990s
• Nintendo’s dominant business model
• Nintendo’s closed ecosystem
• Sega’s open ecosystem
• Why it’s challenging to maintain market share when you’re ahead of the pack
• How Nintendo faltered
• What SEGA did to diffeerentiate itself, despite small budgets, and knock Nintendo off its perch
• Mortal Kombat
• How SEGA blundered
• SEGA’s meddling parent company
• The Console Wars documentary and mini-series
• Identity politis at Oculus
• On becoming a writer, and following one’s passions
• Writing tips
• Dell v Compaq

 Show Notes:

1. https://amzn.to/33jgw3f
2. https://amzn.to/2MqPZdt
3. Twitter: @blakejharris
4. Web: blakejharris.com

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Neil Sahota is an IBM Master Inventor, United Nations A.I. subject matter expert, professor at UC Irvine, and globally-recognized speaker and author. Neil is a founding member of the UN’s Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Committee, and he’s here to talk about the ways we can harness the power of AI and use it for social good. Neil is also the author of Own the A.I. Revolution, providing a future-forward look at A.I., focusing on how businesses can use it to commercialize while doing good in the world.

This was a wide-reaching and fascinating conversation in which we went down numerous rabbit holes, such as what true AI looks like, how AI can adopt our biases and prejudices, the impact on the future of work, AI developing consciousness, whether fears about AI’s capacity to destroy us are legitimate, augmented humanity and our cyborg future, developing countries leapfrogging the west, why philosophy and the arts matter when it comes to designing technology for humans, how organizations can start to take advantage of AI today, and so much more.

With that, strap yourself in for my conversation with the one and only, Neil Sahota.

Topics Discussed:

• What is AI? How do we define it?
• How far away is General AI, really?
• IBM Watson isn’t actually AI
• How AI makes decisions
• Encoding AI with human biases
• Decision-making challenges: how do you control for luck?
• 47% of U.S. jobs risk being automated by 2050 -- how will this affect me?
• Will we create more jobs than we destroy?
• What will humans do?
• The critical importance of philosophy and the arts
• The paperclip problem and perverse instantiation
• Will AI develop consciousness?
• At what point do augmented humans stop being humans and start being cyborgs?
• What aspects of the value chain can companies augment with AI today?
• How should they go about that?

Show Notes:

W: www.neilsahota.com/futuresquared/ 

T: neil_sahota

IG: neil_sahota

Get the book:https://amzn.to/328pz6o

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Aaron Aldred is movement based performance trainer situated in Melbourne. With a Bachelors degree in Sports Science, he is currently training clients out of Focus Fitness Yarraville, a gym located in the inner west of Melbourne. Aaron runs 4 week Mobility workshops which provide a wealth of knowledge on optimising movement mechanics, self myofascial release (SMR) and body recovery.

Aaron has been a competitive athlete for the majority of his life in a range of sportsand currently a national level player in lacrosse.

We explored the importance of mobility, the effects of a sedentary lifestyle on the body and the mind, and what you can do to add more movement to your day, especially if you work in an office.

With that, please enjoy my conversation with Aaron Aldred. 

Topics Discussed:

• What is mobility and why it matters
• The effects of a sedentary lifestyle
• Mobility for the office worker
• How to test how mobile you are
• Exercises you can incorporate into your day
• How to train for longevity
• Foam rollers, saunas and ice baths: myth or reality
• Stoicism
• Prehab v rehab
• The truth about standing desks
• How to get a better night’s sleep

 Show Notes:

• Instagram: @aldred.performance

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Paul Roos is a former Australian rules footballer and senior coach in the Australian Football League (AFL). Roos represented Fitzroy and Sydney during the 1980s and 1990s, playing 356 games over 17 seasons. Roos was the senior coach of the Sydney Swans and Melbourne Football Club from 2002 to 2010 and 2013 to 2016 respectively.

Roos was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005. He has won many accolades throughout his career: he was named All-Australian seven times; received the league's most valuable player (MVP) award; and represented Victoria on 14 occasions in State of Origin.

After finishing as a player, Roos went on to become a successful coach at Sydney, guiding the Swans to the 2005 Premiership, their first in 72 seasons.

Today, Roos is a media commentator and also works with businesses and people to help them perform at a highest level.

We unpacked numerous lessons on leadership that transcend the athletic and business domains and impact the way we live our lives.

Expect to take lots of golden nuggets out of this conversation, including:

• Early life as a footballer in the suburbs
• How to lift the spirits of an underperforming team of people
• Why accountability and ongoing feedback is key
• Why leadership isn’t about having all of the answers
• Why you can do everything right and still lose or do everything wrong and still win
• Why we should focus on the process instead of the decision
• How to ensure people don’t become complacent after a big win
• The value of authenticity and vulnerability
• Keeping yourself accountable as a leader
• Creating space for serendipity
• Behaviour v talent
• Putting yourself in the shoes of your team
• Technical ability v leadership ability
• How to scale culture
• How to manage ego
• Daily rituals and routines

… and so much more!

 This is a ninety minute long episode, but it could have just as easily been twice as long, as Roosy, as he is affectionately known by the AFL public, brought almost half a Century of competing at the highest level to the conversation.

With that, strap yourself in, for a conversation with the one and only, Paul Roos.

Show Notes:

• Performancebydesign.co 
• Roosmensclub.com 
• Nurture360.com.au 
• Nurtureher.com
• Dylanrooscoaching.com 
• Instagram: @paulroos1
• Get Paul’s book ‘Here It Is’: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/here-it-is-9780143793502 
• 25 coaching points to success: https://www.1000manifestos.com/paul-roos-25-points-success/ 

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This past weekend I went snowboarding at Australia’s Mount Hotham.

While I have been a longtime skateboarder, and a short-time surfer, I’d never been snowboarding.

While my skating skills were somewhat transferable, it didn’t stop my ass from hitting the white powder about 50 times.

But that was okay.

It just meant that I had to get up 51 times.

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Scott Belsky is the author of the international bestselling book MAKING IDEAS HAPPEN and his latest book, The Messy Middle, explores finding your way through the hardest and most crucial part of any bold venture. Scott has spent his career making the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies. 

He founded Behance, the leading online platform for the creative industry to showcase and discover creative work, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012 for $150 million.

He is a Venture Partner with Benchmark, and is an early advisor and investor in Pinterest, Uber, sweetgreen, Cheddar, and Periscope as well as several others in the early stages. 

Scott also founded 99U, a publication and annual conference devoted to productivity in the creative world and serves on the Board of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Scott is currently serves as Adobe's Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud.

In this episode, we many topics, inlcuding:

1. How to keep your team motivated, even when there is little cause for celebration
2. How to build a culture of transparency and psychological safety
3. Why organizations who make fast decisions are more likely to win; and
4. What the most sustainable competitive advantage you can have is

We explored this and a whole lot more so strap yourself in for a conversation with the one and only, Scott Belsky.

Topics Discussed:

• Why the media glorifies starting up and exiting, but not scaling up
• Why entrepreneurs shouldn’t conflate raising capital with success
• Why its about how you respond to peaks and valleys that matters most
• Why being resource strap breeds resourcefulness
• Why scaling is so much harder than starting
• The importance of self awareness
• How being the master of your devices gives you an advantage in the attention economy
• Engineering small wins into your team culture
• The role of luck in success, and the narrative fallacy
• Why it pays to have tension in your workforce
• Minimum viable bureaucracies
• How to build a culture that values people over process
• How to make fast decisions and why you should
• Why longevity requires knowing your weaknesses
• On transitioning from Behance to Adobe
• On Adobe’s aquisition of Behance and what they did right
• On making the leap from Goldman Sachs to Behance

Show Notes:

Web: scottbelsky.com | themessymiddle.com 

Twitter: @scottbelsky

Instagram: @scottbelsky

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Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.

Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 850,000 copies and it has been translated into 28 languages.

Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic, and is a past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch in his town of Jupiter, Florida.

We unpacked the following in this conversation:

1. The five laws of the go giver way - value, compensation, influence, receptivity and authenticity - and how applying them can benefit you in business and in life
2. Why it’s not what you sell, but the value it delivers that matters most - and why that value need not always be direct or monetary; and
3. How to get past objections and determine the conditions required to sell your product

We also touched on cognitive biases and how to get better at mastering them, the left-right political divide and how to better persuade people to your line of thinking, and the value of free markets.

WIth that, please enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Bob Burg. 

Show Notes:

• Website: www.gogiverway.com 
• Twitter: @bobburg
• Podcast: https://thegogiver.com/podcast/
• Get Bob’s books: https://www.amazon.com/Bob-Burg/e/B001IGSYSK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share 

Other: 

• Mistakes Were Made but Not By Me book: https://www.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not/dp/1491514132 
• Chris Voss - Never Split the Difference book (“counterfeit yes”): https://www.amazon.com.au/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805 

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Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0

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Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz

Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com

Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski

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