Why Netflix’ Chief of Marketing is badass at building cultural bridges

Why Netflix’ Chief of Marketing is badass at building cultural bridges

«I was worth one cent» says Bozoma St. John (look her up on Instagram @badassboz — the handle lives up to the person), Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix. When moving from Ghana to the US Midwest when she was 11 years old, all her classmates knew about Africa were pictures of starving children they had seen on TV. For one cent a day, so the ads said, they could be fed. Listen to Bozoma open up about her cultural journey and how it translates into her pop-culture career in this intimate interview.

  Guest curated by Andrea Jansen

From Weekly Filet #Special, in October 2021.

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