Ted Sarandos

Who is Ted Sarandos?

Ted Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000. With

more than 20 years' experience in home entertainment, Ted is recognized

in the industry as an innovator in film acquisition and distribution.Ted

oversees strategic content acquisition for Netflix and manages the

company's relationships with studios, networks, film makers and

producers. Since 2000, the Netflix library has increased tremendously,

from 2,000 DVDs in 1999 to 80,000 DVDs and more than 2,000 movies and

TV episodes available for instant watching on the personal computer

this year. As Netflix has grown to 6.8 million subscribers in 2007, Ted

has established Netflix as a successful film distributor within the

entertainment industry. Ted has also spearheaded the company's

original content initiative, Red Envelope Entertainment, creating a

national platform for films and entertainment programming through

unique partnerships with filmmakers, networks and studios, including

IFC, HBO, ThinkFilm and Sundance Channel. These unique deals enable

Netflix to provide the broadest variety of films for consumers as well

as offer an alternate distribution method for smaller and independent

films that might not otherwise be seen. Ted ensures that the 80,000

titles in the Netflix DVD library and more than 2,000 titles available

for instant watching satisfy the 6.8 million Netflix subscribers who

rent about 1.5 million DVDs per day. Ted began his home video

career managing a metropolitan retail chain from 1983 to 1988. He then

moved to video distributor ETD, where he served as Western regional

director of sales and operations. Until March 2000, Ted was vice

president of product and merchandising for Video City, where he

negotiated the industry's first DVD revenue sharing agreement and

reduced the cost of content from all studios.Ted is a former

chapter president and board member for the Video Software Dealers

Association. He also serves on the Film Advisory Board for Tribeca Film

Festival, the retail advisory board for the Digital Entertainment

Group, FIND Advisory Board and MediaRights.org, as well as a serving as

a trustee for International Documentary Association. Ted was also most

recently included in Variety's Global 50, a list of the 50 most

influential people in independent film distribution. An avid

consumer of popular culture, Ted keeps abreast of the entertainment

industry by reading the dailies and trades cover-to-cover, attending

the latest and greatest events in Hollywood and traveling and skiing in

his coveted downtime. He lives in Los Angeles with his two kids. Ted

owns an HD TV and uses Netflix to catch up on films he hasn't seen in

person.