Ted Sarandos on the importance of diverse voices in the executive team at Netflix, as well as the creators of its content, and on the female show creators at Netflix
Ted Sarandos on the importance of pay equity, and on the importance transparency in regards to executives' pay and diversity data in production
Ted Sarandos on Netflix winning an Emmy for House of Cards, and on the confusion over whether Netflix should quality for Emmy Awards because it was a streaming series
Ted Sarandos on 13th having been nominated and eligble for both Emmys and Academy Awards, and on how Netflix's content has been embraced, or not, by the Academies
Ted Sarandos on how he made the decision to shoot a sixth season of House of Cards without Kevin Spacey, following Spacey's #MeToo scandal
Ted Sarandos on Netflix objecting to Georgia's proposed restrictive abortion legislation, as Netflix films many shows in Atlanta
Ted Sarandos on the importance of diverse voices in the executive team at Netflix, as well as the creators of its content, and on the female show creators at Netflix
Ted Sarandos on the importance of pay equity, and on the importance transparency in regards to executives' pay and diversity data in production
Ted Sarandos on his first impression of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, and Hastings' predictions for the distribution of entertainment via the internet at the time of their meeting
Ted Sarandos on the advantage that the "queue" system on Netflix provided over brick and mortar video stores
Ted Sarandos on originally trying to separate out the DVD and streaming services on Netflix when the streaming service first launched by putting the DVD business under Qwikster, and on the backlash to the company offering different prices and services for different users
Ted Sarandos on how Netflix moved into creating original programming, and on their first attempt, the documentary The Comedians of Comedy
Ted Sarandos on Netflix becoming producers of new content, rather than just a streaming service, and on shutting down their original production arm, Red Envelope
Ted Sarandos on Netflix's strategy for developing original content, starting in 2011, and on Netflix streaming House of Cards as its own original series
Ted Sarandos on Netflix not requiring pilots before buying series, beginning with House of Cards, and on how they made a decision to release the first season of House of Cards all at once (allowing viewers to binge watch the show)
Ted Sarandos on Netflix's model of releasing full seasons of shows all at once and how this changed television: "I wasn't consciously breaking the habit, I really felt like I was just enabling access to the programming to more people"
Ted Sarandos on why Netflix's bingeing model has improved viewers' television experience
Ted Sarandos on how Netflix walks the line between licensing content from other studios while also competing with those studios with Netflix's own original content, and on Netflix's main competition as networks begin their own streaming services and start reclaiming content from Netflix
Ted Sarandos on how (or whether) Netflix uses the data it collects from users in order to make programming decisions, and on what kind of data they collect
Ted Sarandos on "taste clusters" on Netflix - the categorization of types of shows the algorithm suggests for a user, and on Netflix's user interface
Ted Sarandos on how and why Netflix decides when to share their ratings and viewership data
Ted Sarandos on Netflix making deals with big names, including Barack and Michelle Obama, Ryan Murphy, and Shonda Rhimes
Ted Sarandos on his first impression of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, and Hastings' predictions for the distribution of entertainment via the internet at the time of their meeting in 1999
Ted Sarandos on the advantage that the "queue" system on Netflix provided over brick and mortar video stores
Ted Sarandos on originally trying to separate out the DVD and streaming services on Netflix when the streaming service first launched by putting the DVD business under Qwikster, and on the backlash to the company offering different prices and services for different users
Ted Sarandos on how Netflix moved into creating original programming, and on their first attempt, the documentary The Comedians of Comedy
Ted Sarandos on Netflix becoming producers of new content, rather than just a streaming service, and on shutting down their original production arm, Red Envelope
Ted Sarandos on Netflix's strategy for developing original content, starting in 2011, and on Netflix streaming House of Cards as its own original series
Ted Sarandos on Netflix not requiring pilots before buying series, beginning with House of Cards, and on how they made a decision to release the first season of House of Cards all at once (allowing viewers to binge watch the show)
Ted Sarandos on Netflix's model of releasing full seasons of shows all at once and how this changed television: "I wasn't consciously breaking the habit, I really felt like I was just enabling access to the programming to more people"
Ted Sarandos on why Netflix's bingeing model has improved viewers' television experience
Ted Sarandos on how Netflix was able to use real, name brand products on Stranger Things
Ted Sarandos on how Netflix walks the line between licensing content from other studios while also competing with those studios with Netflix's own original content, and on Netflix's main competition as networks begin their own streaming services and start reclaiming content from Netflix
Ted Sarandos on Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, which used interactive technology to tell the story
Ted Sarandos on how (or whether) Netflix uses the data it collects from users in order to make programming decisions, and on what kind of data they collect
Ted Sarandos on "taste clusters" on Netflix - the categorization of types of shows the algorithm suggests for a user, and on Netflix's user interface
Ted Sarandos on how and why Netflix decides when to share their ratings and viewership data
Ted Sarandos on Netflix making deals with big names, including Barack and Michelle Obama, Ryan Murphy, and Shonda Rhimes
Ted Sarandos on Netflix's impact on the entertainment industry
Ted Sarandos on what he's learned from television and getting the opportunity to work with some of his heroes, and on his advice for aspiring entertaiment professionals
Ted Sarandos on the best advice he's received in his career