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Five days after Bela Barjaria was fired as Netflix ‘s Chief Content Officer and replaced by Peter Rice , Ted Sarandos had nothing but kind words for his former loyal lieutenant.
“Bela had an incredible decade-long run here,” the ampted up co-CEO said on today’s Q3 earnings call, praising the decade long employee “for all of her incredible contributions.”
Echoing a lot of the language that he used on the October 15 internal memo announcing Barjaria’s axing, Sarandos added: “She put a lot of great hits on the board. She led the teams through a lot of expansions of new types of content. She also did the hard work of building this incredible international team, who’s been making local for local content around the world, which has become a great competitive differentiator for us over the last decade.” Related Stories News Skeptical Wall Street Dings Netflix On Soft Revenue Forecast News Netflix Eyeing More Third-Party Partnerships After Launch With France's TF1
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On an afternoon that saw Netflix stock slide over 5% in after hours trading and a year that has seen the stock down 40%, Sarandos and co-CEO Greg Peters were “totally focused” on pitching the upcoming slate of originals, “core entertainment value,” engagement, partnerships like France’s TFI, live sports and ex-Disney exec Rice riding in on a corporate white horse. To that, for all the praise of Barjaria, there was much said about Rice and his relationships with talent and nothing in the specific realm about the former CCO.
Unlike that October 15 memo on Bajaria’s exit, Sarandos did not mention any of the names of the big titles like Squid Game , the ex-CCO brought to the platflorm
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