“Netflix is a team, not a family”

Land of the Giants

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Technology, Business

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Is working on a team of all-stars, excellent pay, and unlimited vacation worth the stress of constant criticism from co-workers and the knowledge that your boss is considering whether to replace you? Netflix execs will tell you that their internal culture is the key to their success. Hosts: Peter Kafka & Rani Molla This podcast is a production of Recode by Vox and the Vox Media Podcast Network. This episode was produced by Zach Mack, Bridget Armstrong. Our editor is Charlie Herman. Gautam Srikishan engineered and scored this episode. Nishat Kurwa is the Executive Producer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A New York Presbyterian, our data scientist and doctors are combining decades of medical
0:06.5	experience caring for diverse communities with the power of data science.
0:11.3	To one day get ahead of a health issue before it becomes one, stay amazing, today and tomorrow
0:18.0	New York Presbyterian.
0:22.4	Back in early March about a week before we all went on lockdown, our team got on a plane,
0:26.6	number planes and went to Netflix's headquarters in Hollywood to meet with a bunch of their
0:30.8	top executives.
0:47.3	We went through the famous Netflix lobby, which has the state of the art video screens that
0:50.8	show Netflix movies and TV shows and they change every couple of seconds, it's really
0:54.3	impressive.
0:55.3	We passed these Bountiful Microkitchens, our overflowing with snacks and food and everything
0:58.7	it ever want and we went to a conference room where we sat down with the most powerful
1:02.7	man in Hollywood.
1:05.0	Thank you for making time.
1:06.3	Easy question.
1:07.3	Tell us your name and what you do.
1:08.8	Ted Cerandos on the Chief Content Officer in Netflix.
1:11.4	Ted Cerandos spends billions and billions of dollars a year to make TV shows and movies
1:15.2	that get watched by a couple hundred million people around the world.
1:18.6	But a decade ago, Netflix wasn't reshaping entertainment as we know it.
1:22.1	It was just a company that rented out DVDs and streamed other companies old TV shows and
1:26.1	movies.
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