About Anjali Sud
Anjali Sud, now CEO of Tubi, spoke at the Guilds Summit 2026 about her conviction that the future of entertainment will be free and ad-supported. She noted that much of the time people spend on leisure and entertainment occurs on free, ad-supported platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, and that this observation shaped her belief about the direction of the industry.
Sud also discussed leadership qualities she values, emphasizing equanimity and calm under pressure, as well as the importance of not wasting a good crisis. She described how leaders can turn difficult situations into opportunities for necessary change. Additionally, she said that one of the biggest factors that helped her was hiring founders, including through acqui-hires, because they did not need the job and did not think like employees.
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I would say there were some very strategic decisions that I made. One is actually becoming an investment banker out of school. I say that not suggesting you should all go be investment bankers, but the reason I did that was because I wanted to be fluent in finance. I wanted to not be intimidated by the concept of a P&L and numbers, because I did recognize that if you want to run a company or a business, this is language you have to be fluent in. So I was quite specific about for a couple years really wanting to immerse myself in that world, even though I didn't see myself as doing it forever. If I think back, I also tried to find different roles, so marketing or merchandising or ops, and tried to take the same approach, which is like how can I learn enough to be fluent, but also never really deeply specializing in anything because I was trying to get that broader view. I'm not sure that's the only way or should be the only way for people to become CEOs, but I will say that did help me a lot in my career. As I got more opportunities, it's very hard to find people who are both creative and fluent in that language, so having a skill set that is dimensional like that ends up distinguishing you when you're trying to move up. So for each of you thinking about what you want to do and what you're really good at, what are you not good at that you have to be good at to be able to do what you want to do? You can find ways to supplement and learn, but I was pretty intentional about that.
