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Netflix co-CEO says he doesn’t read business books—at all. Instead, he reads one 1902 fiction about a ship and its ‘reckless hot dog’ captain over and over again

Like Elon Musk and Tim Cook, Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos is a fan of good books. But instead of picking up traditional management reads, he leans on a 123-year-old fiction he once thought was about a reckless “hot dog.”

In fact, the 61-year-old executive doesn’t like to read business books—at all. He instead often returns to his favorite work of fiction: Typhoon, a 1902 Joseph Conrad novella about a steamship captain and crew navigating a severe storm while at sea.
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Source: Fortune | Published: 2026-01-07T16:13:11Z

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