SuperAngel #184: Charley Ma, first angel check investor attracting follow-ons from giants like A16Z, Coatue, First Round, Index, & Sequoia

Today, we're happy to welcome you to the second episode diving deep on the story of a Super Angel on EUVC! Say hi to Charley Ma, the man responsible for building and scaling multiple enterprise software startups and leading their marketing, sales, and customer success teams from $0 to $200m dollars as the first revenue hire for companies such as Plaid, Ramp, and Alloy. But Charley's career as an operator is definitely matched by his career as an angel having been an early investor in breakout companies such as Stytch, Unit, Codat, Moov, Finch, and many more which have gone to raise from giants like A16Z, Bain, Benchmark, Coatue, First Round Capital, Founder’s Fund, Index and Sequoia.


In this episode you'll learn:

• Charley's journey from JP Morgan to Plaid and into angel investing despite "not having that much money" at the time - in fact he decided to invest his B-school savings on building his angel career instead of academic rap sheet!
• How Charley thinks about building relationships in angel investing and the importance of being opinionated and selective at the same time as maintaining a broad network
• How Charley employs his experience from his angel investing to make him a better operator and how that allows him to navigate the current market better
• How Charley thinks about portfolio construction, ownership and how he has gone from being purely founder centric to now being more thematically focused

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