Andreessen Horowitz hires NerdWallet’s Leung as executive editor

Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired NerdWallet’s Maggie Leung as executive editor to build its media operation around covering technology and innovation.

She had been at NerdWallet, a personal finance site, since October 2013.

Margit Wennmachers of Andreessen Horowitz writes:

Hiring for this particular position was a super tall order. The list of must-haves is long: a proven builder, a critical thinker, a person who can hire and inspire a team, oh, and someone with strong journalistic chops. Maggie checks all these and then some! She joins us from NerdWallet, where she built an entire content operation of 90+ pros, from scratch. Before that, Maggie spent more than 20 years in daily news, including stints at the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and as a senior editor at CNN. Simply put, when you find someone like Maggie, you have to work with them.

And of course Maggie is joining our outstanding editorial team, led by our wonderful managing editor Amelia Salyers, who hired many of the editors, and of course, the super-talented and incomparable Sonal Chokshi, who continues to guide our voice and editorial vision as our editor in chief. Every piece of content you see or hear has been shaped and edited by the editorial team.

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