Ted Sarandos will join the wave of business leaders making the pilgrimage to Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, a source confirmed. Variety.
Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, will visit the president-elect on Tuesday. Further details about the meeting were not immediately available. The meeting was first reported by CNN’s Alayna Treene.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago in late November, and Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook followed suit last week. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is also expected to visit this week.
The new Trump administration has threatened to crack down on major tech platforms, especially over perceived censorship of conservative speech. Tech hardware manufacturers also have a lot to fear from Trump’s threats to impose a 60% tariff on Chinese goods, and 10% on all imports.
Meta, OpenAI and Amazon also pledged last week to contribute $1 million each to Trump’s inauguration. Disney-owned ABC News also agreed to donate $15 million to a Trump presidential library as part of a defamation settlement announced Saturday.
Trump called the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, before a crowd that included top executives from Goldman Sachs, MasterCard, Citigroup, Verizon and Target. At the event, Trump reiterated his pledge to cut corporate taxes to 15% for companies that produce their goods domestically.
Sarandos’ wife, Nicole Avant, donated $150,000 in support of Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee in September. Sarandos has also given in his own name to Democrats in the past, though his contributions declined in the Biden era, and he did not give in 2024.