Ted Sarandos, co-CEO of Netflix, said the entertainment industry “certainly gets overlooked” in U.S. trade deals.
From 2020-24, Netflix contributed $125 billion to the U.S. economy, creating 140,000 production jobs across 500 productions in all 50 states, according to Sarandos, speaking at Semafor’s World Economy Summit 2025 in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. “The lion’s share of our investment is in the U.S.,” he said, noting that the company has 9,000 employees in the country, with 3 million square feet of studio space and 2 million square feet of office space.
