Ted Sarandos
9 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jun 2, 2018 by Ted Sarandos · said 19 times in 3 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Marc Andreessen (15), Reed Hastings (2), Sonal Chokshi (1), Ben Horowitz (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 18 mentions in 2 episodes 9 per episode
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Jun 2, 2018 positive
Sarandos: Authentic local TV shows travel globally better than English-dubbed copies
“What we're trying to do is tell these stories that are authentically local, and the win for us is that they actually travel more the more authentic they are. Because there's something inorganic about the English language European television show that forces it…”
Jun 2, 2018 positive
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Hastings: Ted Sarandos bought 5,000 DVDs at Costco to fulfill early Netflix orders
“In his first two years at Netflix, he had to work out of the home because he couldn't afford an office, and he used to drive down with his crew to Costco and, you know, buy 5000 copies, and, you know, we would load them up and mail them out.”
Jan 2, 2019
Sarandos: Netflix greenlights roughly 1% of pitches across its content slate
“This year we'll have 30 original series, 80 original films, 35 original kids series, 19 local language original series being produced all over the world 65 documentary projects, so I would say it's about one in a hundred.”
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Netflix's investment in original programming reached over $7 billion
“Today's episode features a Q&A with Ted Sarandos, chief content officer at Netflix, which evolved from a company that sold DVDs by mail to streaming to including original programming, which is now an over seven billion dollar investment for them.”
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Ted Sarandos greenlit Stranger Things immediately upon hearing the pitch
“I knew as soon as we heard the Stranger Things pitch that we were doing this show. And I knew it every step of the way as the episodes, as the scripts were coming in, as the episodes were coming in, That it was something special. Not at the scale that it is. I…”
Jan 2, 2019
Sarandos: Viewing preferences are highly mood-dependent across genres and context
“So much about choosing is mood-based. So, you know, I know you love drama, but the hard thing about the machine, even why the machine learning really is helpful in this, is you can watch 25 comedies, and I can tell you a lot about your comedy taste, but I know…”
Nov 26, 2025 neutral
Culture-programming books are only useful for leaders of mature, scaled organizations
“Is, it's actually, it's more useful for me. And you know, when I talk to like Ted Sarandos or somebody like that, they're like, oh yeah, that's a book I like. But you have to run a very large organization. And you have to have gotten beyond the things, the har…”