Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, December 15th.

Today on Forbes, Netflix's Queen of Screens.

Bella Bajaria is neither a CEO nor head of state, but when she arrives somewhere, it feels like that,

as evidenced by the reception as her chauffeured SUV pulls up to the studio

city set of the television show Beef.

The limited-run anthology series earned eight Emmys last year for Netflix, where Bajaria has

been the chief content officer since 2023.

The series has been reimagined for a second season with an entirely new cast, who rushed

to greet Bajaria, showrunner Li Sang Jin, and executives from the production company, A-24.

Clad in an oversized gray sweater and leather pants, Bajaria responds with graceful glad-handing,

befitting her training as a former Miss India universe,

ultimately slipping Lysung Jin a gift to celebrate a milestone before taking a seat in a director's

chair with her name on it and putting on the internal headphones.

The royal treatment comes well-earned. As the person who greenlights content for Netflix,

the 55-year-old Bajaria is the queen of

streaming, the person who decides how over 300 million subscribers around the world on any

given night will watch shows and movies. And her strategy clearly works. Last week, the streaming

giant raked in the most Golden Globe nominations, 35, across film

and television for blockbusters like Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, K-pop demon hunters,

shows like adolescents, and more.

Bajaria tells Forbes, quote,

What has always served me well as this curiosity of wanting to build a business or a new

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