How this woman went from a Pizza Hut employee to founder of $4 billion startup
Credit Karma
- When Nichole Mustard found herself adrift after college, she made a simple promise to herself: "be happy."
- Time and again that choice led her to revamp her life and start over someplace new.
- Ten years ago, it led her to sell her house, take a 60% pay cut and move her family across the country to found Credit Karma – a startup that today employs 800 people and is valued at $4 billion.
- But it almost fell apart months after she risked it all.
Nichole Mustard isn't your classic Silicon Valley tech founder. She didn't teach herself to code as a kid. She didn't attend Stanford. She didn't intern at a tech giant.
After college, she was a trainee manager at Pizza Hut, living hand-to-mouth in a cheap LA apartment with a roommate, she tells Business Insider.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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