
He built subscriber machines at Hulu and FanDuel before the streaming wars got loud. Now he has to convince America to pay Fox directly.
Everyone else sold their libraries and chased prestige drama. The Murdochs kept the loud, live stuff - news and football - and it is quietly minting money.
Chang She is the co-founder and CEO of LanceDB, the company behind the open-source Lance columnar format and a database built for multimodal AI. A co-author of the pandas library alongside Wes McKinney, he spent nearly two decades building data tooling - from quant research at AQR to the DataPad startup (acquired by Cloudera) to VP of Engineering at Tubi - before setting out to replace the aging Parquet-and-Spark stack with what he calls the Multimodal Lakehouse. In June 2025 LanceDB raised a $30M Series A led by Theory Ventures, with adoption at Runway, Midjourney, and Character.ai.