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In Australia, Nikki Durkin is kind of a big deal.  At 25, she is the co-founder of her third startup Codemakers, has been named one of Sydney Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People, and was one of the top 3 finalist's in Cosmopolitan Magazine's 'Fun, Fearless Female Of The Year' Awards.  "I could go get a job tomorrow and get paid a lot of money, but I know what’s going to happen everyday. That’s just not me. I like the unknown whether it’s I’m going to do really well or I’m not going to do really well. But at least for me I feel like it's in my control." She founded her first company at 15, and her second, 99dresses, at 18 and within a couple years was accepted into one of the most prestigious startup accelerators in the world, Y Combinator, located in Silicon Valley. Everything seemed to be going according to plan…ish, until it started not too (sound familiar?). First, her co-founders left, then the funding she had secured fell through, and while Nikki did everything she could to navigate yet another ch