Ted Sarandos
Netflix’s co-CEO and long-time content chief, who turned a DVD-by-mail company into the world’s dominant streaming and original-content studio.
Pay vs performance
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Why this pay?
- As co-CEO he is paid separately from Peters. His fiscal 2024 Summary Compensation Table total was $61.9 million, dominated by the grant value of stock, making him consistently one of the highest-paid executives in media.
Worth knowing
Netflix launched in 1998 mailing DVDs to customers in red envelopes. It did not stream a single video until 2007 — a decade before it became a household word for online video.
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Compensation breakdown
DEF 14ANetflix has two co-CEOs; this is Sarandos’s own SCT line, paid separately from Greg Peters. Source: Netflix 2025 Proxy (FY2024) →
Compensation history
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