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Sarandos: Idiot-proofing a business results in a company full of idiots
“You can you can idiot-proof your business, but then you're gonna end up with a business full of idiots.”
Sarandos: Companies should operate like sports teams, not families
“This is not a family. This is a sports team, a high-performing sports team. He goes, you know, you wouldn't throw your brother out. He said, but there's no shame of getting cut from a great team. You could, a lot of great athletes get cut from a great team”
Sarandos: Authentically local storytelling is the most globally valuable
“So this idea of, you know, authentically local storytelling being the most globally valuable is unintuitive, but totally true.”
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…”
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…”
Sarandos: AI Generates Predictable Outcomes, Antithetical to Human Imagination
“In fact, what AI is doing today is like the antithesis of imagination. It's taking, it's giving you the most predictable outcome based on these kind of rough ideas you're giving it.”
Sarandos: An ads-only model cannot fund ambitious premium content
“The ads only model doesn't support the kind of ambitious content that we put on.”
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.”
Sarandos: National inventory models turn fragmented niche demand profitable
“If you had one copy in the thousands, there was all over the United States. They'd all make money. So that was this kind of idea. And then Netflix became this kind of national footprint inventory. So we can support very small niches and then, or even more impo…”
Sarandos: A curated list of five choices is far more valuable than a thousand
“You'd think the worst thing would be a list of a hundred movies, but the worst thing is a list of a thousand movies.
Yeah.
So, but actually a curated list of five is unbelievably valuable.”
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.”
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…”
Sarandos: True crime's global popularity stems from puzzle-solving instincts
“I think they really like crime because they're puzzle solvers, problem solvers. They were trying to try to solve a puzzle. I think it's very built into our DNA to figure, figure things out... So I actually think people are very curious and that, that true crim…”
Sarandos: Predicting cultural shifts to greenlight content is nearly impossible
“The reason it's so hard to predict is because sometimes it changes because of what's happening in the culture, and sometimes the exact opposite. Meaning that because things are so X, because things are so black, people really want white now. Or because everyth…”