Mandy Teefey Has Always Bet on the Story Everyone Else Left by the Curb

Before she became Wondermind’s co-founder and CEO, Mandy Teefey learned production from the floor up, turned an abandoned-couch family joke into a company name, and carried one young-adult novel through years of Hollywood limbo. Her career is a study in stubborn attention - and what it costs when conviction meets the operating realities of a startup.