Like Elon Musk and Tim Cook, Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos is a fan of good books. But instead of picking up traditional management reads, he leans on a 123-year-old fiction he once thought was about a reckless “hot dog.”

Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos says he draws leadership lessons from novels, and his most revisited book is a century-old fiction story about a sea captain.

Like Elon Musk and Tim Cook, Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos is a fan of good books. But instead of picking up traditional management reads, he leans on a 123-year-old fiction he…