"I would encourage other women to be brave, not perfect. … Once we realize our mistakes won’t kill us, and that perfection is getting us nowhere, there’s nothing that can stop us."

Reshma Saujani, founder of the international nonprofit Girls Who Code, which has to date taught technical skills to more than 185,000 girls, in an interview with Fast Company for its story, “7 successful women on the ‘mistakes’ that changed their careers.”