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Netflix’s New Co-CEOs Answer All Your Questions

Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters on advertising, competition and what happens when they disagree.

Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos.

Photographer: Peter Yang

So that’s what an orderly transfer of power looks like.

While Disney chief Bob Iger ousted every potential threat to his throne before leaving (and coming back), Netflix Inc. co-founder Reed Hastings left his post as co-CEO of the world’s largest streaming service after grooming his two successors -- and then actually gave them the job.