Maggie Leung

I led the building of NerdWallet’s backbone — our large content team and content operations — from scratch, starting well before our first funding round. The company eventually IPO’d in 2021 at a $1.8 billion market cap (Nasdaq: NRDS). During my tenure, we grew NerdWallet from an unknown into a trusted brand, with a monthly average of 21 million unique users. Our content team thrived remotely during my 7.5 years at the company, while I also served on NerdWallet’s exec leadership team. I then detoured to world-class venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which was a terrific learning experience. After that, I dove back into startup work, which I love. Before joining the startup world, I worked in news, including stints at CNN, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. NerdWallet CEO Tim Chen describes me as “incredibly strategic and iterative,” as well as “fearless, principled and learning minded.” I build high-performing teams, operations and culture by adapting, learning and unlearning to meet different business needs. I’m a systems thinker who leads holistically and gets shit done, as NerdWallet peer reviews reflected: • “Maggie views every decision through a business lens. ... Her approach has helped the team scale quickly, but in a logical and deliberate way.” • “Maggie is remarkable, a force of nature. She sees the big picture and communicates it well. But what really sets her apart is that vision combined with intimate knowledge of every job in Content and her insistence that all Content Nerds have the freedom and the training to be their best. I have never seen a manager who both understands the intricacies of an entire department and also knows how each one fits into a broader vision that she is helping to shape. She sees the trees AND the forest. I also love that she is direct and decisive." • “Maggie is one of the few people at NerdWallet I look to as a reference for how to effectively lead a large, multi-layer team.” • “Maggie has done a pretty remarkable thing — building a first-class content operation from scratch and leading it into a high-functioning whole. Content Nerds hold each other to high standards, but also treat each other with respect and genuine affection, and that's a tribute the culture Maggie has carefully created.” • “She is thoughtful, caring of her people, and caring of doing the right thing, regardless of how hard it may be.” • "I have never met another person so relentlessly self-improving. ... I would describe her unequivocally as one of our strongest NerdWallet leaders."