Netflix employs 1,000 LA content staff and 4,000 Silicon Valley tech staff
Ted Sarandos · a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture · Jan 2, 2019 · at 7:39
Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix, details the workforce breakdown and geographic separation between Netflix's Los Angeles entertainment team and Silicon Valley technology team.
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“There's about a thousand people who work in LA that, on all the aspects of content, they all think they work at the greatest entertainment company in the world. And there's about 4000 people in Silicon Valley who think they work for the best tech company in the world.”
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