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Netflix’s Ted Sarandos Isn’t Done Disrupting Hollywood: On Winning the Streaming Wars, a Marvel ‘Fistfight’ and Defending Meghan Markle
Ted Sarandos talks to Variety about his 25 years at Netflix, from "Stranger Things" to live NFL games, Marvel superheroes and more.
The co-CEO of Netflix is lampooning himself in an episode of the Apple TV+ series “The Studio,” Seth Rogen’s answer to “Entourage” by way of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” And given Sarandos’ reputation as a driven boss who hates to lose, it’s hilarious that he’s making a cameo on a competing streamer. He’s the man who gave us “Stranger Things” and “Squid Game,” convinced Adam Sandler to board the streaming train and transitioned Shondaland from linear TV legend to a bingeable juggernaut. Indeed, he engineered the purchase of the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood for Netflix and renovated the prized movie palace where the company shows its films on the big screen to awards voters.
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