Reed Hastings: The Next ‘Squid Game’ Is Likely “Digesting In The Netflix Content Engine”
deadline.comNetflix was taking a Squid Game-themed victory lap during its third quarter financial earnings call after it emerged that a “mind-boggling” 142M households watched it during its first 28 days.Netflix Co-CEOs Reed Hastings, who was wearing a Squid Game-themed tracksuit, and Ted Sarandos both discussed the success of the dystopian Korean drama series and pointed out that neither of them expected it to be such a hit.Hastings said that it was commissioned on a local level, from a team led by regional content chief Minyoung Kim, and applauded his partner Sarandos for building a system that can do that.He said that the next breakout hit was probably similarly going to come from somewhere unexpected. “There’s got to be other amazing ones like that
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