Cspan, created by private industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Host Mark Randolph is a cofounder of netflix and he is the author of this new book, that will never work. Mr. Randolph, what the idea of netflix come from . Guest ideas come from the strangest places. In that will never work a talk about this crazy idea we had in of all places carpooling. My cofounder Reed Hastings and i were commuting back and forth to work brainstorming ideas, and one of these crazy ideas we had with maybe we could do video rental by mail using dvds. Rather than rushing home writing a Business Plan or hurrying to the office and doing a powerpoint slide show, we decide we would try to take the first step to validate that idea so we turned the car around, drove down to santa cruz we both lived. I went to a used music store and bought a little music cd. I think it was patsy cline. We went next door, bought a little gift envelope
We went next door and bought a gift in below. We mailed it. The next day, when he picked me up, he had an unbroken cd in an envelope that had gotten to his house. I think that was the moment. To where were you carpooling . He was the founder of a company. It was a big, geeky Software Company. It acquired the Software Company i was working out. I went to work for him. We spent about nine months working together. We lived in the same town. We spent those nine months carpooling together. Then lightning struck. The company was going to be acquired. We were going to be out of a job. I decided this was perfect. I would start my next company. He wanted to keep a hand in this entrepreneurial thing. E agreed that i would start he would be the biggest financial backer. All we needed was an idea. That led to these crazy car rides. We brainstormed everything we could think of. Where did the title come from . It is a quote for my wife. And also from thousands of other people i told the idea. Idea.
Were following the new rules, but that includes customers, too. If a customer does come to the store and they do not have a mask and then well refuse service or even if we have maybe an extra mask well offer a mask to them. Reporter we found most people were covering up, but not everybody. I thought it was mandatory as of like midnight last night. Im a little alarmed. Reporter mayor london breed urges citizens to refrain from mask shaming or confrontations. If you are not a Police Officer, dont act like one. Were not expecting people to police one another. Reporter marin countys mask requirement doesnt take effect until wednesday, but many businesses are already on board. And i feel like we all just got to kind of play the game right now, you know . Its hard times but we all got to get through it and play the game. Reporter Santa Clara County wants people to wear face coverings but wont make it a requirement. San joses mayor says if youve got one, wear it. Whether its mandatory or not,
He gave us no choice. Reporter for more than six hours, democrats and republicans in the house of representatives laid ware the partisan divide. President trump violated the law and solicited foreign interference in our elections. Donald trump has been and remains a threat to our national security, a clear danger on our democracy. Excusing his behavior will forever tarnish your name. Reporter republicans raeled against the proceedings, accusing democrats of trying to overturn the election. Impeachment will not just be a stain on the democrat majority. This will be their legacy. This will be determined as the political impeachment that set the precedent for president s to be impeached every time theres a divided government. Reporter the final votes were largely on party lines. President trump lashed out at a rally in michigan. Democrat lawmakers are not believe you have the right to select your own president. The president is still president. Be president tomorrow. And hes gonna be pres
At 5 30. A suspected drunk driver is under arrest after a deadly crash in san jose. Two people were killed. Five injured. Good evening. I am veronica. I am alan. That crush it that crash happened earlier yesterday. Kpix5s devon, says with alcohol a suspected factor, investigators are not calling this an accident. Reporter the lone survivor inside the victims car, says she is hurting physically and emotionally today. She asked just for a little bit of time, and privacy to process, to try and understand for herself, what was supposed to be a moment of celebration, turned in an instant, to an almost unimaginable tragedy. 61yearold, rosa garza and 34 your son 34yearold son, Francisco Garza were driving to San Francisco. When their car was clipped from behind, and sent uncontrollably into the guardrail. It caused it to veer off to the right shoulder and collide with the guardrail. Damage suggested the vehicle may have overturned at least one time. Reporter rosa garza, seatbelted in the back