Oct 15, 2026 · 1 hr 17 min · 13 segments
Maggie Rodney, Partner at Massive and producer of Massive Signals, turns the tables on co-founders David Mandell and Ari Newman, who have spent every episode asking the questions and now take the hot…
But I think the key was that after I sold my last company, I was pretty focused on being a full time investor moving forward.
What I didn't mention was along the way, not just starting my own companies, I've also been mentoring and coaching many, many other companies.
I had been a CEO coach for about ten years at the time and developed just incredible pattern recognition around what makes good leaders that build great companies.
And at the same time, through Techstars, the companies that I built, the investors that I had helped and the angel investing I had done and the people I had raised money from, I was lucky enough to have built an incredible network of other operators and founders.
And he and I had both been in situations with either starting our own companies without co-founders or dealing with co-founders.
We're like, God, given the choice of doing this by myself or someone I really trust and respect and enjoy working with, I would much rather choose the latter.
I was coming at it from a similar place, but my orientation was I'm not ready to commit to a strategy.
And ironically, David, had we done a fund one back then, it probably would have been a crypto sass and it probably would have underperformed because the valuations were outrageous.
But I think the key was that after I sold my last company, I was pretty focused on being a full time investor moving forward.
What I didn't mention was along the way, not just starting my own companies, I've also been mentoring and coaching many, many other companies.
I had been a CEO coach for about ten years at the time and developed just incredible pattern recognition around what makes good leaders that build great companies.
And at the same time, through Techstars, the companies that I built, the investors that I had helped and the angel investing I had done and the people I had raised money from, I was lucky enough to have built an incredible network of other operators and founders.
And he and I had both been in situations with either starting our own companies without co-founders or dealing with co-founders.
We're like, God, given the choice of doing this by myself or someone I really trust and respect and enjoy working with, I would much rather choose the latter.
I was coming at it from a similar place, but my orientation was I'm not ready to commit to a strategy.
And ironically, David, had we done a fund one back then, it probably would have been a crypto sass and it probably would have underperformed because the valuations were outrageous.
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