Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Amoruso is the founder and owner of Nasty Gal, which sells women's fashion including modern and vintage clothing, shoes and accessories for young women which can all be found on the brand's website. It was called one of "the fastest growing companies" by Inc. Magazine in 2012. After being diagnosed with depression and attention deficit disorder, Amoruso dropped out of school and began homeschooling. She had many jobs as a teenager, her first ever job being in Subway. After...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth20 April 1984
CitySan Diego, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I've never worked in a retail store, but I did sell shoes at Gimme Shoes in San Francisco, a job I was fired from.
Lots of people are going to sell clothes online. But not a lot of people have built a brand, a living, breathing brand that people feel like they're part of.
Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.
Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format. It teaches you the beauty and power of presentation, and how you can make magic out of nothing.
My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.
In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.
Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.
Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'
I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.
It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.
I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.
I want people to feel the freedom to be themselves.