[2] During her senior year she was the editor of the weekly student newspaper, the Montana Kaimin.

Looking to get away from the negative aspects covering of hard news, she moved to California and took a job at MacHome Journal, where she said she discovered that she had always been a geek.

[4] The following year, Wood became a tech correspondent and backup host for the US public radio program Marketplace and its various spinoffs.

She left Marketplace in 2021 to join Launch, a venture capital firm, where she was a podcaster and investor.

[7] She left in March 2023 to found Molly Wood Media, an "angel investing and startup advisory firm".