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Nancy Hass in GQ..

These days, [Ted Sarandos] is the man everyone wants to take a meeting with. People love you when you’re handing out the cash, and Sarandos, who looks the part [] but has one of the weirdest résumés in town (graduate of an Arizona community college, worked his way up in the DVD business from video-store clerk, landed at Netflix in 2000 to run distribution), has $6 billion to dole out over the next three years [including] $300 million for original programming .. He hopes to make at least five new shows a year. [] His dream project: a Netflix series created by Warren Beatty. “He’s great in long form,” Sarandos says. “His only problems have been when he’s constrained.” .. “The goal,” he says, “is to become HBO faster than HBO can become us.” His seductive pitch to today’s new breed of TV auteurs: a huge audience, real money, no meddlesome executives (“I’m not going to give David Fincher notes”), no pilots (television’s great sucking hole of money and hope), and a full-season commitment

Their new series “House of Cards” is amazing .. read more