Ted Sarandos
14 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 4 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2025 by Ted Sarandos · across every show →
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Jun 7, 2025 bullish
Sarandos: AI Will Not Displace Human Actors and Writers
“I'm not afraid of AI, and I hope creators aren't afraid of AI, because I actually think it's going to make great tools to tell stories even better, and make it possible to make movies they couldn't before. And I, it not meant, won't likely displace the things …”
Jun 7, 2025 negative
Sarandos: Work-life balance does not exist and chasing it is futile
“I think it, or maybe it's just aspirational that they seek life, work balance, but there's no such thing. It's an exercise in futility to try to chase it. In fact, it's probably, you're probably shortchanging one or the other all the time.”
Jun 7, 2025 bearish
Sarandos: Live sports broadcasting is a structurally low-margin distribution business
“For me, I believe that big sports, cricket in, in India, the NFL in the United States is, those leagues are so powerful. The consumer demand for them is so high, they should get all the money. So whoever's delivering it, it's just a distribution business. Shou…”
Jun 7, 2025
Jun 7, 2025 neutral
Jun 7, 2025 negative
Jun 7, 2025 positive
Sarandos: Starting at talent agencies teaches more in six months than other media jobs
“Well, first of all, I think the we're trying to do is figure out, I think the right first path is to get into work for one of the agencies.
Like CAA, UTA, these agencies who represent talent management.
you learn more about the business in six months than a…”
Jun 7, 2025 positive
Sarandos: Netflix targets bespoke live sports spectacles over season packages
“Our version of this would be something like the NFL on Christmas Day, where we actually create a Netflix event around it, where we have back-to-back football on the, that day, we have a Beyonce concert in between, It was a real kind of a fun, like Christmas da…”
Jun 7, 2025 positive
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Jun 7, 2025 positive
Sarandos: World was better with a single news source like Cronkite
“With Reed, when I would say, say that when Walter Cronkite was the news, and everybody tuned into the news to hear that from Walter Cronkite that the world was a better place when there was one source of truth, even if it was wrong, 25% of the time.”
Jun 7, 2025 negative
Sarandos: Netflix Does Not Use Algorithms to Greenlight Content
“Definitely not on the, on green lighting. No. The idea really, mostly it is the quality of the storytelling. Is this a world that people are going to want to spend time in? Are these people, people care about? Do I care how these people, what happens to these …”
Jun 7, 2025 positive
Sarandos: Co-CEO structure works at Netflix by splitting tech and entertainment cultures
“I think where it really works well here is we do two very distinctly different things. We manage two different, distinctly different cultures inside the business with tech culture and entertainment culture. We're even physically in two different places in Cali…”
Jun 7, 2025
Sarandos: Documentaries mostly fail by misjudging runtime for the story
“I think that like a documentary particularly is something the way it fails mostly is a short that should have been a feature that should have been a short just picking the running time that's appropriate to the story you're telling.”