The Man Who Makes Netflix Flow

摘要

Ken Florance wasn't born in Northern California, but his biography reads like a CliffsNotes version of the area's countercultural history. He dropped out of school and, in between Grateful Dead concerts and acid trips, made a pilgrimage to the Oregon home of Ken Kesey, the novelist and proponent of psychedelia. In the 1980s and '90s, Florance taught himself IT and eventually worked his way into the first dot-com boom, managing large websites and learning the inner workings of the Internet. Now 51, he shuffles barefoot each morning into the garage of his Santa Cruz home to kneel before a Buddhist shrine and meditate for an hour before heading to work. His office is in the headquarters of Netflix, where Florance is the vice president for content delivery.