Business · Media

Bela Bajaria

London · Zambia · LA → Running Netflix
RootedBuilds UpStory Has Weight

Gujarati girl. Started at CBS reading scripts in a basement. Now she decides what the world watches.

Her family's road ran through London and Zambia before Los Angeles. She started at the bottom — reading scripts in a basement at CBS — and kept climbing rooms that weren't built for her.

She became the first woman of color to run a major Hollywood studio. Today she's Chief Content Officer at Netflix, steering a $17B content budget for 238M subscribers. The woman who decides what the world watches — and you'd never heard her name. Until now.

The weight of the story isn't the title. It's the basement, the rooms, the distance from Zambia to the top of Hollywood — carried without erasing where she came from.

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