NastyGal Founder: I Was A Stripper! A Shoplifter! Then Built A $400m Business! Sophia Amoruso
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Didn't you get an offer to sell the company for four hundred million dollars? Yeah, I did. Super rich. Why didn't you say yes? You're very good at this. Sofia Maruso founder of Nasty Gown, a best selling author and a powerhouse in the entrepreneurial world. I was rebellious from a very early age. I was a stripper. I wasn't even 21. I used someone else's ID to work there. Built an online business. And the first thing I sold online was stalling. Get a whole shopping cart of stuff. Put them on Amazon for 10 cents less than the other resellers. And then gotten arrested for shoplifting. I realized I could connect my creativity to something legitimate. Started Nasty Gal, selling vintage. Nasty Go went from$150,000 a year to doing$150,000 over lunch. I didn't realize the amount of responsibility I had being the poster child of entrepreneurship. Then I was this girl boss, but My naivete and lack of experience did send me to the grave. Now y'all fell apart after 10 years. My husband of like a year left. The headlines weren't nice. Then Netflix comes out. You just got played.
What is it like from a mental health perspective? It's hard to pull yourself out of a hole when you don't want to get out of bed. It's challenged my confidence and I'm still like I don't belong here, but I don't belong here is also a really great motivator. I don't belong here means I don't fit in, but that's gonna be a superpower. I can do things differently. What was the plan in life at that point? Oh gosh. Uh
Yeah. Take me back to those suburbs in San Diego and give me your earliest context. Wow, I uh
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