Nova Credit

“We invested before there was a product. There were students at Stanford and they were coming here to our lectures or talks, et cetera. Just an amazing team.”

“I have never found a recruiter that can solve diversity. I think that is something that as a leadership team, you have to make a company-wide priority and do yourself.”

“My style in having fundraising conversations is not to try to hide the most challenging part of a business model under the mattress. Instead, I try to bring it up forefront and talk about why I recognize it to be a concern and how I've Personally gotten comfor…”

“For example, I am working on several executive searches right now, and the first slate that one of the top tier executive search firms here in the Valley brought me was like, 95% male, and the five percent that was not male were candidates that I had put forwa…”

“It's very tempting, especially as a first-time team, to make every decision consensus-based. And so you deliberate on every decision, and everything takes forever. And oftentimes, unfortunately, you end up with a decision that's the average, as opposed to what…”

“So we started as three co-founders, and we scaled up to 10 folks, and all seven of those hires were male, despite having Nikki, my co-founder, not being male.”

“So long as it's not a tier one decision, I will not overstep my line. That is their decision, and so long as I've been consulted, and they hear my perspective, if they still want to move forward, that is their call, and they will learn from that, whether it wo…”

“We've built an incredible foundation that now has the ability to serve About 60% of the annual inflows of newcomers to the U.S.”

“With Novacreda and Misha, there really isn't another Credit reporting agency built for immigrants. No one else is building in that sector.”