Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is poised to become a Hollywood mogul as the streaming giant has clinched a deal to buy Warner Bros., but his career took an unconventional path that most film nerds can only dream of.

He explained in an interview last year how he got his start in the entertainment business and revealed a key lesson from legendary crooner Tony Bennett.

In a wide-ranging chat on Bloomberg TV’s “The David Rubenstein Show ,” Sarandos offered some details on his transition from an aspiring journalist to video store clerk and eventually to Netflix.

Growing up in Arizona, he said he wanted to be a journalist even as he loved movies and TV, which also portrayed news hounds as heroes. He was editor of the campus newspaper in high school and in community college.

“But I also had a

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