As the succession battle at Disney continues to rage on, Ted Sarandos has fielded questions about his desire for the soon-to-be-vacant top job. And the Netflix co-CEO has repeatedly and emphatically insisted he doesn’t want it. “It’s not even on my mind,” he said at a Wall Street Journal conference in October. After all, why would he want the Disney helm? He has built a streaming empire that upended the entertainment business, leaving the rest of Hollywood in its wake and bringing his company’s stock price to new heights (trading at about $1,200 a share as of press time). Still, there is a big something Disney has that Netflix doesn’t: theme parks. The streamer has been branching out more and more into experiential entertainment. (Squid Game: The Experience just expanded to London, in case you want to live out a capitalist nightmare overseas.) Should Netflix want to take the leap,
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