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Fortune
Emma Burleigh

Netflix cofounder says he stopped work at 5 p.m. every Tuesday for 30 years to stay ‘sane,’ no matter the crisis: ‘Nothing got in the way of that’

Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph (Credit: George Pimentel / Contributor / Getty Images)

Business leaders love to debate the myth of work-life balance. But for Netflix cofounder Marc Randolph, the rule was simple: every Tuesday at 5 p.m., he walked out—no matter what.

“I’ve worked hard, for my entire career, to keep my life balanced with my job,” Randolph wrote in an old LinkedIn post that has recently been recirculating on social media. 

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