Ted Sarandos joined Netflix in 2000, when it was a mail-order CD-rental business, and a decade later initiated much of the company’s early original content – including Lillehammer, which incongruously puts mobbed-up Steven Van Zandt in isolated Norway – House of Cards, and much more. He made headlines in 2021 for brokering a difficult dispute between the LGBTQ+ community, including Netflix employees, and Dave Chappelle’s jokes that target them.