Ted Sarandos

Birth Name:

Theodore Anthony Sarandos

Birth Place:

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Profession

Producer, Actor

Became a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute
When he was a child, he would watch five episodes of a soap opera satire with his family back to back every Sunday night, which helped shape his idea for releasing entire series of television shows at once
While working part-time in a strip-mall video store in the early 1980s, he started studying how viewers consumed television
Quote: "It is a golden age for TV, but only because the best writers and directors increasingly like to work outside Hollywood․"
Quote: "You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along․ I'd rather make it all about the joy․"
In 2000, he began leading content acquisition for Netflix
Worked as an executive at video distributor ETD and Video City, as well as West Coast Video
Recognized as an innovator in film acquisition and distribution with over 20 years of experience in the industry
At Tribeca and the Los Angeles Film Festival, he served on the Film Advisory Board
Served on the retail advisory board for the Digital Entertainment Group

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