How this woman went from a Pizza Hut employee to a founder of a $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 Los Angeles apartment with a roommate, she told Business Insider.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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