Mike Bidgoli

Excited to see @Tubi featured in @WSJ following great conversations with @bellelin_, with perspectives from both me and @anjsud, on how we’re using AI to win over Gen Z audiences by improving all three sides of our marketplace (Viewers, Content Creators, Advertisers). A few key ideas behind our approach: 1. Hyper-personalization at scale: combining deep learning + LLMs, including Tubi Foundation Model (built on open source pretrained model and fine tuned on our proprietary data) to understand not just what you watch, but why 2. AI is expanding discovery: as people turn to conversational interfaces and AI agents, we’re meeting viewers at the moment of intent (including with our recent native ChatGPT app launch) 3. One AI foundation, multiple unlocks: the same content understanding that powers discovery also drives more relevant, scene-aware advertising such as our our Tubi Moments ads product 4. Creator economics are changing: AI is a tool for creators, lowering the barrier to storytelling and expanding who gets to create 5. Built for experimentation and velocity: Tubi is fueled by experimentation (almost 2000 per year), and AI is rapidly accelerating that pace across the entire company In this era, the most important attribute is learning fast, constantly reimagining how things can be built using the new tools, and staying scrappy (we’re even willing to rack NVIDIA GPUs in the office if it can help unlock more experiments for our eng team!). Big shoutout to @santacruzseana for helping bring this story to life. Link: wsj.com/cio-journal/wh…

You’re one of the most hard charging and inspiring leaders I’ve ever known @fidjissimo. And you’ve done so much of your great work while dealing with health obstacles. Someday these chronic health conditions will be a thing of the past, and I bet your work at OpenAI and ChronicleBio would have played a hand in accelerating that future. Hope you feel better soon.

@CODA_research I have high hopes that AI will accelerate the path to cures, but patients cannot wait. Despite all the resources at my disposal and an incredible support system, I still couldn’t avoid a medical leave. We need better solutions for all patients, now.

If there is one good thing that can come out of having my health issues exposed to the world, it’s raising awareness for complex chronic conditions like POTS, MECFS, Long Covid or EDS. 🧵 businessinsider.com/what-is-pots-f…

Today @Tubi was recognized by Fast Company as the #1 Most Innovative Video Company and #15 Most Innovative Company overall in 2026! This recognition is for reimagining free, fan-focused TV. The path here reflects how we build at Tubi. Every decision starts with our fans - how we serve them better, and how we do it in a free model powered by technology. That has been our mission since day one. We were the first to bring truly free TV to connected devices, building ad-supported experiences and unlocking content from studios and library owners. Today, we’re pushing that further helping creators break into Hollywood. Behind it all is a lean team of 700 people taking big swings every day rapidly testing, learning, and shipping, with nearly 2,000 experiments and launches a year. We’re entering a moment where everything in the world is rapidly accelerating due to AI, and where millions more people will become creators and storytellers. We’re building for this moment. Very proud of this team and company. Let’s go! 🔥

@nrmehta I’m soo soo sorry to read this @nrmehta 💔

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.” - Albert Camus Before I re-enter my old social media world of AI takes that are irrelevant after 3 days and math memes that are immortal, I want to share some reflections from the last 2 weeks since our daughter Summer’s passing. I have felt more pain than I thought was possible. And I have felt more love than ever before. This love arrived in the form of messages and visits from precious friends and perfect strangers. People sharing stories of their own loss - of a child, of a parent, of a sibling. People opening up about near-loss experiences. People offering help for the little things. People coming by to distract me by talking about less-emotional topics like SaaS valuations. And people just checking in. The humans in my life also rallied toward the cause Summer asked us to support - The Trevor Project to reduce youth suicide. Between online donations and some direct ones, we’re around $600K toward our goal of $1M. More to go, but what a start: give.thetrevorproject.org/fundraiser/696… Every person helped me immensely. But since grief is something most of us will encounter, I thought I’d share a few concepts that stood out as particularly healing. Each person grieves differently, so take these with a grain of salt: * There Are No Words, But They Still Help: “No words” was the most common phrase in my iMessages from the last week. I know it’s so hard to know what to say. But for me, simply hearing from people made me feel seen and loved. * Learn from Loss: Summer never believed she mattered. Yet the ~100 classmates from her school told so many tales of her impact. Being vulnerable, I struggle with the same inner critic Summer did. Hearing her friends celebrate her life woke me up woke me up to the fact that I matter too. * Embrace Choice: Several friends that experienced loss talked about treating our path from here as a choice. We didn’t choose what happened to us. But we grieve because we love. And I choose to love Summer for the rest of my life. * Do It for Her: On that note, a longtime peer in the business world spoke about creating a mission for yourself. In his case, he wanted to live a life that would have made his lost mother proud. For me, I committed to helping me and my family live lives full of purpose and passion, in honor of Summer. * Find a Way to Process: People described the ways they processed their own grief - through travel, art, music and more. For me, I’ve been through a number of tough personal experiences over the last 3 years and found that writing poetry has helped me. Below is one I wrote about the unfinished nature of sudden loss. I hope we can all find ways to shepherd each other through the unfinished sentences of life - and give ourselves grace that whatever words we choose are perfect. ❤️

@Tubi has deep roots at UC Berkeley. @farhadm (Tubi’s founder) and I were CS lab partners at Berkeley. During college, he pitched me a new idea almost every week - until a few years after graduation he turned one of them into Tubi. I’ve always been blown away by the technical and product talent that Berkeley produces, so it was great to be back on campus along with @MikeTamir, Max Dorofiyenko, Angela Feng and Victoria Cheng to share Tubi’s story. Early career builders have a huge advantage: a fresh mindset. And with the AI revolution, they now have a chance to learn and build faster than any generation before them. That belief is the thesis behind our Tubi Builders Program. We launched our second cohort a week ago and have already received 10,000+ applications. Tubi Builders has five tracks: 1) Associate Product Manager 2) Associate Software Engineer 3) Associate Machine Learning Engineer 4) Associate Designer 5) Associate Data Scientist Builders are full-time, competitively paid members of our San Francisco tech org, shipping real products across our entire stack, with built-in mentorship. Applications are open until Feb 15. Learn more and apply here: tubitv.com/buildersprogra… Huge thanks to Professor @NargesNorouzi, Robbie Powers and Rebecca Ricksen for hosting us. Berkeley’s CS/EECS/DS students are lucky to have you. And thanks to Isabella Kira for the photos 🙏

@JoannaStern Congrats @JoannaStern!

Some personal news. For real. I’m doing one of these. Deep breath… After 12 years at The Wall Street Journal, I’m leaving. Twelve! I’m starting my own consumer-tech media company, building a new home with the same mission I've always had: help real people navigate the tech (and AI) changing their lives. I’m so excited and so terrified! I can’t wait to start building and hiring. If you want to follow along (and be first to hear what’s next), sign up at the link below and subscribe on YouTube. No holding small, puffy microphones. I promise. Probably. It would make for a great exit story if I said I was leaving the Journal because of some big fallout—and the office printer system slowly poisoned me. The Journal changed my life. I’ve learned from the best journalists in the business, made lifelong friends and was given the freedom to take risks and make at least six stipples of myself—and one of my dog. Thank you to the many people I can’t possibly list here and to everyone who watched my WSJ videos, read the columns, argued with me in the comments and made this the most fun job in the world.

We just launched our second class of "Tubi Builders Program" 🔥 This program is our bet on the next generation of tech leaders at @Tubi . We’ve been blown away by what our first cohort of 18 Tubi Builders shipped over the past few months, so we’re quickly doubling down. Our thesis is clear: the best tech companies are built by curious, hungry individuals who learn fast, push hard, and rapidly ship. We’re at a rare inflection point in the industry where newcomers can be trained to be AI-native from day one and start on a much more productive trajectory than ever before. For a company powered by experimentation (we ran ~750 experiments in the Tech org in the last half alone), this model fits perfectly. We’re hiring across five tracks: 1. Associate Product Manager 2. Associate Software Engineer 3. Associate Machine Learning Engineer 4. Associate Designer (New) 5. Associate Data Scientist (New) Builders are full-time, competitively paid members of our San Francisco tech org, shipping real products across our entire stack and business, with mentorship built in. If this sounds like you (or someone you know), apply and spread the word. We’ll also be hosting info sessions with Tubi leaders and our current Builders cohort . 👉 Apply here: tubitv.com/buildersprogram. Applications close on Feb 15th. Program begins Aug 2026.

@FareedZakaria @CNN @hdagres @WashInstitute @FareedZakaria over three thousand people dead…

On GPS, at 10am & 1pm ET today on @CNN: Iran’s growing unrest. What began weeks ago as economic protests have spread, and a regime crackdown has left at least 78 dead according to a US-based rights group. I’ll ask @hdagres of @WashInstitute what happens next Then: the big questions about Pres. Trump & Venezuela. Can Trump really “run” the country at the point of a gun? I’ll ask fmr sr WH official @Cartajuanero & @frrodriguezc of @ceprdc. I’ll also discuss Trump’s threats vs Greenland w/ fmr Danish FM @JeppeKofod of the @AtlanticCouncil and Venezuela & drug smuggling w/ historian of drugs @dhbuffalo

Videos and photos coming out of Iran are absolutely horrific. Estimates are that 2000 innocent people were killed just *yesterday*. The US and the world need to do everything we can to help the people of Iran *right now*

I’ve been doing an ad hoc version of this for my 5 and 8 year old using a regular Robinhood account we have. Ever since we started this experiment with the kids, they have saved/invested most of their earned/gifted money into their Robinhood account (where my wife and I match their contribution). Most surprising to me has been how they’ve learned about investing and how much they’ve shifted from spending money on toys to investing. I think @RobinhoodApp would be an incredible company to build this and I hope @vladtenev and the team there pursue this.

@APompliano 100% this must & will exist. The @TrumpAccounts app - like Venmo & Cash App will make it easy to add $$ w QR codes & “venmoing” $$ into the account. But all 3rd party apps & ideas welcome. KPI is frictionless addt of $$! @InvestAmerica24 @jgebbia 🇺🇸🚀

Someone should create a very simple app or website that lets anyone deposit money into an American child’s Invest America account. It would be great to meet a young person and minutes later be able to donate $100 to their future. @altcap know of someone building this?

One of the many examples of our continued work of methodically making @Tubi the most effortless entertainment platform out there. Rollout of Matter Casting on Fire TV - which allows you to cast Tubi content from your device to any Fire TV without the need to go through a lengthy install and sign in process on your tv. cnet.com/tech/services-…

@MichaelDell 👏

$6.25 billion. 25 million children. $250 each. Susan and I believe the smartest investment we can make is in children. That’s why we’re so excited to contribute $6.25 billion from our charitable funds to help 25 million children start building a strong financial foundation through Invest America. 💪📈🇺🇸 onedell.com/investamerica/

Thank you! Feel lucky to work at this great company that you two all time GOATs have led / are leading @farhadm @anjsud 🙌

Thank you @Forbes for this cool recognition! I think the recognition is really about @Tubi's momentum and the way our team behind it is building together to shape the future of entertainment and streaming. I'm very proud and lucky to be working with this team 🚀 forbes.com/sites/richardn…

@fidjissimo @WIRED @OpenAI Always so inspiring 🙌 Excited about all the ways you will evolve the product

Was fun talking to @WIRED about my first few months at @OpenAI and what I’m focused on. wired.com/story/fidji-si…

New pod: How Tubi got profitable, and why every platform now wants YouTube creators. With Tubi CEO Anjali Sud. Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/1ChzcY…

@onecaseman @SuperMeAI Congrats @onecaseman and @ludo_antonov ! Great idea - and I’m pretty sure you guys will not have any shortage of growth ideas and execution between the two of you 😊

Today, we’re pulling the curtain back to unveil SuperMe 1.0: the AI-native professional network, launch Perspective Search, and announce that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round. How @SuperMeAI works: - Ask a question. - SuperMe finds the right professionals. - Their AI profiles answer instantly, grounded in their real work. It’s how advice really works in business. We’ve just built it into the network. Search is changing. But it has gaps. AI assistants answer without revealing the humans behind the knowledge. Perspectives are lost as blue links turn into one-size-fits-all answers. Perspective Search is our answer to that. We show multiple answers to your questions, from people who have solved your problem before. You can also go deeper by engaging with individual profiles. We’re also excited to share that we’ve raised a $6.8M seed round led by @mduboe at @GreylockVC , joined by some of the most thoughtful builders and operators in tech (see list below). Read the full story in Alex Konrad’s Upstarts and our full launch post in the comment below. We’ve brought on a large group of amazing angels to help bootstrap the network with fantastic insights: Product Leaders: @aparnacd , CPO for AI Experiences at Microsoft @nikhyl , Founder of the Skip and Former VP Product at Meta @archieabrams , VP Product at Shopify @omarseyal , Head of Product, AI Search at Instagram @ngavini , former CPO at Pinterest @makavy , former CPO at Lyft @ShaunMClowes , CPO at Confluent @eugenewei , former CPO at Oculus, Hulu, Flipboard @jasoncosta , Sr. Director Product at Reddit Founders: @shishirmehrotra , CEO of Superhuman @bbalfour , Founder/CEO of Reforge @VanjaJosifovski , Founder/CEO of KumoAI, former CTO at Pinterest @catleecatlee & @smallchou , former bosses of mine at Pinterest and co-founders of Pace @rob, Co-founder of Ro @PameVls , Founder/CEO of Musa @IAmBrandonTerry Founder/CEO of Village @dmccartney Co-founder of ScoutFM Growth Leaders: @ElenaVerna , Growth at Lovable @brianhale, Chief Growth Officer at Doordash @fishmanaf , Growth and Product Advisor Darius Contractor, Chief Growth Officer at Otter @luclevesque , former Chief Growth Officer at Shopify @dannieb , Head of Growth Engineering at Coinbase @micahmoreau , SVP Growth at Hims & Hers @sri_batchu , former CMO at The Real Real @HilaQu , Former VP Growth at Gitlab @eusden , formerly Growth at Pinterest, Alto, Faire Operators: @danhockenmaier , Chief Strategy Officer at Faire @jluan , Head of AGI SF Lab at Amazon @lieber, former COO Postmates, CBO Shippo Morgan Hughes, former CFO at Cambly, VP Finance at Airbnb and Grubhub @mckenzielock , GM Content Platform at Netflix Ali Behnam and Michael Morell at Riviera Eddie Hsu, Head of TPM, Android at Google Jeffrey Chang, Product at Adobe Benjamin Huh, Assistant General Counsel at Crowdstrike Investors: @lennysan , Author of Lenny’s Newsletter & Lenny’s Podcast @HarryStebbings and @Kieranleehill at20VC @kevinakwok , Partner at Sutter Hill @mercebent , Co-founder at Premise @Chengdavid923 , GP at Coreline Ventures @tkendall, founder at Common Metal and former President at Pinterest @NikkiFarb , Founder at Power of N @ngoel & Amr Al-Shihabi at Karman Ventures Mei Z. @ikirigin , Founder at Tango VC We’re just getting started.

It was an honor for @anjsud, @paulcheesbrough and I to host Mayor @DanielLurie, Representative @kevinmullin, State Treasurer @fionama, and State Senator @Scott_Wiener for the opening of our new @Tubi HQ in SF! Tubi was started here in San Francisco (in Pier 38) by @farhadm. We pioneered ad-powered streaming and today bring free effortless entertainment to more than 100M users. While our story is unique in streaming, SF has created many successful stories like ours. It’s especially energizing for me to see how Mayor Lurie is breathing life back into the city and helping bring the next wave of innovation to San Francisco. Many of us owe him a lot of gratitude for that and I’m pretty excited for us at Tubi to double down right here in the city 🙏 P.S. We gave Mayor Lurie a tour of our AI hackathon and science fair and he does know tech given the questions he was asking! 🙌

@MatthewFaustman @HoneyHealthai @Pelion_VP @MobiHealthNews Huge congrats! Let's gooo

As a T1D, I’ve seen how back office work slows care. Enter @HoneyHealthai — AI staff for the entire back office. Today, we’re announcing our $7.8M Seed led by @thogg at @Pelion_VP to help providers eliminate the admin paperwork. Thx @MobiHealthNews mobihealthnews.com/news/exclusive…

@byersblake @EliLillyandCo @newlimit Congrats! 🙌

+$45M on a $1.62B cap note from @EliLillyandCo, Duke, Section 32 and others -- just five months after our Series B. Lilly is flirting with becoming an Aging Company. Excited to have them back @newlimit and for more companies to go after the most important human ailment.