Nicky Goulimis, COO & Co-Founder of Nova Credit

Nicky Goulimis is the COO and co-founder of Nova Credit is a cross-border credit reporting agency. It exists so immigrants don't have to start building credit again from scratch when they move to new countries. Nova Credit secured $19.4 million from investors like General Catalyst, Index Ventures and Y Combinator Nova.

Her best advice: "When I was just out of college, I struggled with reconciling my identity as a good student with the reality that I had no real skillset" she told YCombinator. "I think I held myself back from doing new things because I wouldn’t be good at them. In the last few years, I’ve tried to push myself to not worry so much about my current abilities, and focus more on the learning process. Right now I’m in a position where I’m pretty dreadful at sales but I’ve got to learn it because someone’s got to do it for the company. So I’m trying to focus on enjoying that learning rather than beating myself up for not being the best yet."