You look around at the founders, and at the people who keep getting ahead, and they all seem to have the technical background you don’t. The right unit in the army, the right degree, and a keyboard in their hand since they were kids. So somewhere along the way, you decided that building your own thing, or going after the bigger role, isn’t really for someone like you.
Naama Nicotra is living proof that the story isn’t true. She studied industrial design, served as the first training officer in a brand new commando brigade, and never wrote a single line of code. Today, she’s the founder and CEO of NakedPak, creating food packaging you can actually cook and eat, with no plastic and no waste.
In this conversation, we talk about what courage really looks like when there is no single brave moment, why success is the small wins you let yourself celebrate, and how she keeps going after every rejection instead of crawling under the blanket.
In this episode:
About Naama:Naama Nicotra is the founder and CEO of NakedPak, the first brand creating edible, hot water-soluble food packaging that leaves no plastic, no waste, and no chemicals behind. She came to entrepreneurship not from a tech unit or a coding bootcamp, but from industrial design and from building things from scratch, including as the first training officer in a new IDF commando brigade. Her perspective is a reminder that there is more than one way into this world.
Connect with Naama:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naama-nicotra-1b9232174/
NakedPak: http://www.nakedpak.com/
Connect with Limor:Website: https://limorbergman.comPodcast: https://limorbergman.com/podcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/limorbergman/Substack: https://limorbergman.substack.com
For anyone searching: starting a business without a technical background, how to find the courage to start, dealing with rejection as a founder, what success means for an early-stage entrepreneur, women in tech, and female founders.
You look around at the founders, and at the people who keep getting ahead, and they all seem to have the technical background you don’t. The right unit in the army, the right degree, and a keyboard in their hand since they were kids. So somewhere along the way, you decided that building your own thing, or going after the bigger role, isn’t really for someone like you.
Naama Nicotra is living proof that the story isn’t true. She studied industrial design, served as the first training officer in a brand new commando brigade, and never wrote a single line of code. Today, she’s the founder and CEO of NakedPak, creating food packaging you can actually cook and eat, with no plastic and no waste.
In this conversation, we talk about what courage really looks like when there is no single brave moment, why success is the small wins you let yourself celebrate, and how she keeps going after every rejection instead of crawling under the blanket.
In this episode:
About Naama:Naama Nicotra is the founder and CEO of NakedPak, the first brand creating edible, hot water-soluble food packaging that leaves no plastic, no waste, and no chemicals behind. She came to entrepreneurship not from a tech unit or a coding bootcamp, but from industrial design and from building things from scratch, including as the first training officer in a new IDF commando brigade. Her perspective is a reminder that there is more than one way into this world.
Connect with Naama:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/naama-nicotra-1b9232174/
NakedPak: http://www.nakedpak.com/
Connect with Limor:Website: https://limorbergman.comPodcast: https://limorbergman.com/podcast/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/limorbergman/Substack: https://limorbergman.substack.com
For anyone searching: starting a business without a technical background, how to find the courage to start, dealing with rejection as a founder, what success means for an early-stage entrepreneur, women in tech, and female founders.