NastyGal Founder: I Was A Stripper! A Shoplifter! Then Built A $400m Business! Sophia Amoruso | E239

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

April 17, 2023

Duration

1h 36m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

Watch on YouTube

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Sophia Amoruso is an American business woman and New York Times best-selling author of ‘#GIRLBOSS’ which later became a Netflix series of the same name. Topics: 0:00 Intro 02:04 Early context 07:04 Do you know what affected you most as a child? 11:06 Always wanting to rebel 17:33 I'm a little dark 24:47 Being a stripper 29:38 Shoplifting 33:54 Ads 35:50 The start of Nasty Gal 59:34 Dealing with self-doubts 01:08:34 The downfall of Nasty Gal 01:20:18 Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs 01:24:04 Your hardest moment 01:25:37 Would you ever be a CEO again? 01:31:06 Magical thinking 01:32:37 The last guest's question Are you ready to think like a CEO? Gain access to the 100 CEOs newsletter here: ⁠https://bit.ly/100-ceos-newsletter Sophia: Instagram: https://bit.ly/3A19HWz Twitter: https://bit.ly/3ocKOEx Join this channel to get access to perks: https://bit.ly/3Dpmgx5 Follow: Instagram: http://bit.ly/3nIkGAZ Twitter: http://bit.ly/3ztHuHm Linkedin: http://bit.ly/3ZFGUku Telegram: http://bit.ly/3nJYxST Sponsors: Huel: https://g2ul0.app.link/G4RjcdKNKsb Zoe: http://joinzoe.com use code ‘CEO10’ for 10% off Airbnb: http://bit.ly/40TcyNr

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Steven Bartlett

  host

• Sophia Amoruso

  guest

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Steven Bartlett and Sophia Amoruso, NastyGal Founder: I Was A Stripper! A Shoplifter! Then Built A $400m Business! Sophia Amoruso | E239 explores from Stripper To CEO: Sophia Amoruso’s $400m Rise And Fall Sophia Amoruso traces her journey from a lonely, rebellious childhood through stripping and professional shoplifting to founding Nasty Gal, a fashion brand she bootstrapped from an eBay store into a $100m+ business. She explains how curiosity, nonconformity, and resourcefulness fueled her early success, but also how inexperience, overfunding, and a lack of operational discipline ultimately led to the company’s collapse.

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