Ignaz co-founded Personio, helped scale it past 100 employees and 700+ customers as CMO, and later became an active angel investor in over 25 startups before consciously stepping away from operational scaling to focus on the growth, data, and marketing automation work he found more energizing—an experience that also included an earlier startup that didn't work out before Personio's success. He's outspoken about VCs overusing the phrase "hands-on" without follow-through, points to 3VC's smaller portfolio load per team member as proof of real involvement, and outside of investing, he's been a Founders Pledge member since 2019, describing giving in terms of personal values and the stories behind the causes he supports rather than pure optimization.