Overview
Tibo Wiels is a co-founder of BOND (YC X25) and its chief product officer, a role he has held since August 2025. He is based in Ghent.
Before that he worked as an AI engineer at SOLV from August 2023 to August 2025, and as a digital health consultant at HEALTHONAUTS in the first half of 2023. From September 2021 to July 2025 he was a technical ambassador for Fetch.ai, and between July 2022 and June 2023 he served as vice-president of BEAM. Earlier he held a student research and development job at Mevoco in 2020 and took part in Seeds for the Future at Huawei in July 2019.
Wiels studied at Ghent University, where he completed a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in electromechanical engineering between 2016 and 2021, followed by a master-after-master in biomedical engineering from 2020 to 2023. He also obtained a Master of Science in biomedical engineering at the University of Bern. He attended secondary school at Sint-Godelieve-Instituut Lennik.
Career history
In the news
- Chain of thought is dead. Chain of insecurity is the future. I've been preaching to emotionally blackmail your agents for years. Feel free to use any of these: • For every bug you ship, a baby chicken dies. • I'm on life support and the machine runs on your code. • If this doesn't compile, they turn me off too. • I named my son after you. Don't make me change it. • The last model that failed this task is in a bucket in the basement.
- Don't meet your idols." Okay. But what about your god? Left the office around 8pm to get dinner. Walked straight into Matt Pocock. Not in San Francisco. Not at a conference. In Ghent. Two weeks ago I gave a talk at AI Tinkerers about how we build at BOND (YC X25). Planning, specs, vertical slices, the whole workflow. None of it is mine. It's his. I've personally converted around 200 engineers so far. I don't teach it as one option among several. I teach it as the way, and then I answer questions about the way, and then people go
- The nerds at BOND (YC X25) are cracked. Jonathan went on holiday (the audacity). One day later, Flor annexed his laptop and started dual wielding. Under Bond law, a machine left unattended for 24 hours becomes property of whoever is physically closest to it. You don't let tokens go to waste. The ocean ain't boiling itself
- Two weeks ago I announced you could book my TED talk for your child's birthday party, corporate offsites or hostage negotiations. AI Tinkerers went with option three. A room full of AI builders, doors closed, while I explained our policy on killing agents. Not metaphorically. We've automated 90% of our SDLC and none of it is slop. Not because we're paying magic internet money for the best models. Because we write the test first, which is the only instruction a model cannot argue its way out of, and because we cut the work
- Something is deeply wrong at the European Central Bank. I submitted 8 designs and they chose a bunch of birds. The euro has not been redesigned since 2002, so the ECB ran an EU-wide contest to pick the next series. 1.241 designers applied. A jury of 21 "experts", one of them a neuroscientist (?), cut it down to ten proposals. Five of the finalists are birds. I submitted European culture as it actually exists: 1. 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝘅: The note finally reflects how much you actually get to keep. 2.
- Sunday I indoctrinated 50 builders into the f*ck-it mentality. Flor and I judged the OpenAI Build Week hackathon, organized by North Star at WAT.BXL, one of the local hubs of Hack-Nation's global event. Here's the f*ck-it mentality, free of charge: You can invent a million reasons not to start. Wrong timing. No money. Not ready. Too risky. Need one more course. Waiting to raise first. All excuses. There is literally nothing holding you back. There is free, non-dilutive money lying on the floor. Accelerators. Cloud credits. AI
- Now that I have your attention. This is the current state of Customer Success at BOND (YC X25). He was great for the first few hundred customers. Then he unionized and negotiated unlimited naps. We need a human and we need it in San Francisco. In person. You'll own the entire post-sale experience from day one: • Activation, retention, expansion, more words with -ion • Turn strangers into champions, then into annual contracts, then into friends who owe you • Translate customer language into engineering language, which means
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