Background
Ted Sarandos was born circa 1964 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Ted Sarandos was born circa 1964 in Phoenix, Arizona.
He attended a community college in Phoenix.
He serves as the Chief Content Officer for Netflix. Sarandos started his career by working in a video store. He later worked as an executive for the video distributor ETD and for Video City and West Coast Video.
Sarandos joined Netflix in 2000.
He serves as its Chief Content Officer. He uses algorithms to predict what programs viewers will want to watch prior to producing them.
Sarandos serves on the Film Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. He was listed on the Time top 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.
Sarandos serves on the board of trustees of Exploring The Arts, a non-profit organization which supports arts education in public schools in New York City and Los Los Angeles
He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.