Sophia Amoruso has announced she and the majority of her team have left Girlboss. Amoruso is blaming COVID related financial issues to her departure. She wrote on Instagram:
“2020 has quite literally been a world of pain for most of us in some way, shape, or form. For Girlboss, COVID was a head-on, high-speed collision. The Girlboss business relies upon two things to drive revenue: events and brands sponsoring those events. Yes, we also host podcasts, send newsletters, and are highly visible on social, but the majority of our brand partnerships are also predicated on some integration with the Girlboss Rally. I’ll keep most of the details for the next book, but essentially it boiled down to this: we had a high 8–figure partnership lined up, along with other deals that we’d already closed. Then BAM. COVID hit. Revenue decimated.”
View this post on Instagram The only time I’ve cried in front of my team was when I read this letter aloud on Zoom. As of last week I, along with the majority of our team, are no longer with Girlboss. 2020 has quite literally been a world of pain for most of us in some way, shape, or form. For Girlboss, COVID was a head-on, high-speed collision. The Girlboss business relies upon two things to drive revenue: events and brands sponsoring those events. Yes, we also host podcasts, send newsletters, and are highly visible on social, but the majority of our brand partnerships are also predicated on some integration with the Girlboss Rally. I’ll keep most of the details for the next book, but essentially it boiled down to this: we had a high 8–figure partnership lined up, along with other deals that we’d already closed. Then BAM. COVID hit. Revenue decimated. I’m not sure what’s next for me, but what I am sure of is that I’ll always be a champion for Girlboss. I’ll always be “the” Girlboss. And I’ll keep harvesting my learnings for all of you as much as I can, wherever I can. Here’s what I do know: For the first time in my life, I’m prioritizing my wellbeing over my ambition. I’m inspired to give more than I receive, and to be of service. If you want to stay posted on whatever I end up doing next, I’ve launched a little love letter/newsletter that I hope you’ll join. The link’s in my bio. Thank you to the millions of women who supported Girlboss. Thank you to the early investors who believed in us. Thank you, Joe Marchese, for buying the company just six short months ago—who could have known we’d be here today. Thank you to by far my proudest accomplishment, the team at Girlboss, who taught me so much. Sophia A post shared by Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso) on Jun 22, 2020 at 10:34am PDT
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Last December, Amoruso sold Girlboss—a media platform that hosts events, a blog, a podcast, and social network to Attention Capital, a new media holding company. She remained its CEO. Amoruso is the controversial founder of Nasty Gal, which at one point was bringing in $100 million in annual sales. She stepped down in 2015 and the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a year later. Boohoo Group bought Nasty Gal for $20 million in 2017.
Subscribe to our newsletter and follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date on all the latest fashion news and juicy industry gossip.S ophia Amoruso wants to get something straight about the term “Girlboss”. “It’s about choosing for ourselves what success looks like, ” she explains. “I don’t want to equate it with the word feminism.”
Granted, it’s her phrase and, accordingly, should be hers to define. In 2014, Amoruso published #Girlboss, a self-help book-slash-memoir about the launch of her fashion brand Nasty Gal. Nasty Gal was an eBay store that became an e-commerce beast, selling clothes inspired by celebrities including the Olsen twins, Sienna Miller and Kate Moss, and pulling in revenues of almost $28m in 2011. The New York Times dubbed Amoruso a “Cinderella of tech”; she appeared on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, and was named one of its richest self-made women. Then, in November 2016, she filed for bankruptcy. “It was a very slow face plant, ” she says, drily.
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Now the story has resurged via Netflix, which has fictionalised #Girlboss in a series of the same name (minus the hashtag). The first season covers the genesis of Nasty Gal. Its protagonist – based loosely on a 23-year old Amoruso – is unlikable and entitled: in the pilot, she gets sacked from her job in a shoe shop after eating her boss’s lunch. She is, predictably, a hot mess, and the opening scene has the usual visual and sonic tells of the bad girl: Suzi Quatro on the stereo, a car key with a disembodied Barbie head keyring. Naturally, fictional Amoruso is wearing a vest, jean shorts and knee-high boots. Watching things unfold, you get the feeling that this isn’t a protagonist whom the audience is supposed to side with entirely; by way of explanation (and perhaps defence) Britt Roberston, who plays her, has said that the character “can’t make her way in life because nobody understands her story or gets who she is”.
Watching a fictionalised version of her life, Amoruso says, “was “crazy”. How did she feel about how she was characterised? “It portrays a 23-year-old, ” she says firmly. “There are things that are a lot like me at that age, and things that are exaggerated. It was never the task to recreate me.” She hopes the series will make people laugh, though presumably, for her, it is discomfiting viewing. “One part that really gets me is episode 13. We’ve just launched the website and we’re having the party. The camera pans in on my character and you see that she’s alone. That’s a feeling that I’ve experienced a lot. When you are the founder, you’re not everyone’s friend. You’re not a peer.”
The series has sparked a testy conversation around Amoruso, and how her stories (real and fictionalised) represent modern feminism. This puts her in quite a strange position, given that she says she is a feminist but that the book is
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A feminist manual. It’s a curious distinction. #Girlboss has always been aligned – especially on social media – with go-getting, 1% feminism; her book has even been described, by the Washington Post, as a “Lean In for misfits”. “Girlboss is not a literal term, ” she insists. “It could mean being a stay-at-home-mom.”
For Amoruso, being a girlboss often meant going it alone – she touches on the idea of separation several times. I wonder whether she could be alluding to the much-publicised rifts she had with her employees. In 2015, Nasty Gal was sued for allegedly firing four pregnant women and a man about to take paternity leave. However, when pressed on the subject , she remains quiet and never references the cases (which were settled out of court). Did she enjoy running her own company? “It all happened very quickly, ” she says. “I think it takes a lifetime to become a good leader. When you found a company accidentally, you don’t think ‘This is what our culture’s going to be, this is the kind of leader I’m going to be’”. Amoruso jokes that she herself is unemployable. “I’m not good at doing what I’m told.”
She’s introspective when she considers what she would have done differently. “There’s so much I didn’t do for the first several years at Nasty Gal, and today I know how important those things are, ” she says. What would she say to her younger self? “Focus. You have to space out your ambitions – don’t try to do them all at once.”Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. Twitter LinkedIn icon The word in. LinkedIn Fliboard icon A stylized letter F. Flipboard Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Link icon An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link
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It began as a slow crumbling. In December, Steph Korey stepped down as CEO of cult-favorite luggage brand Away (she would go on to step back in a month later and resign a second time in July). In February, Tyler Hanley resigned as CEO from the millennial activewear company she founded, Outdoor Voices.
In the midst of it all, Sophia Amoruso — the pioneer of the term girlboss — resigned on June 22 from the #GirlBoss media platform she had created years earlier. But while the girlboss has met a swift and public downfall, that's actually a good thing — and it's not the end of the female leader. Instead, it's the beginning of a new space for more inclusive leaders to shine without being defined by gender.
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A feminist manual. It’s a curious distinction. #Girlboss has always been aligned – especially on social media – with go-getting, 1% feminism; her book has even been described, by the Washington Post, as a “Lean In for misfits”. “Girlboss is not a literal term, ” she insists. “It could mean being a stay-at-home-mom.”
For Amoruso, being a girlboss often meant going it alone – she touches on the idea of separation several times. I wonder whether she could be alluding to the much-publicised rifts she had with her employees. In 2015, Nasty Gal was sued for allegedly firing four pregnant women and a man about to take paternity leave. However, when pressed on the subject , she remains quiet and never references the cases (which were settled out of court). Did she enjoy running her own company? “It all happened very quickly, ” she says. “I think it takes a lifetime to become a good leader. When you found a company accidentally, you don’t think ‘This is what our culture’s going to be, this is the kind of leader I’m going to be’”. Amoruso jokes that she herself is unemployable. “I’m not good at doing what I’m told.”
She’s introspective when she considers what she would have done differently. “There’s so much I didn’t do for the first several years at Nasty Gal, and today I know how important those things are, ” she says. What would she say to her younger self? “Focus. You have to space out your ambitions – don’t try to do them all at once.”Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. Twitter LinkedIn icon The word in. LinkedIn Fliboard icon A stylized letter F. Flipboard Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook Email icon An envelope. It indicates the ability to send an email. Email Link icon An image of a chain link. It symobilizes a website link url. Copy Link
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It began as a slow crumbling. In December, Steph Korey stepped down as CEO of cult-favorite luggage brand Away (she would go on to step back in a month later and resign a second time in July). In February, Tyler Hanley resigned as CEO from the millennial activewear company she founded, Outdoor Voices.
In the midst of it all, Sophia Amoruso — the pioneer of the term girlboss — resigned on June 22 from the #GirlBoss media platform she had created years earlier. But while the girlboss has met a swift and public downfall, that's actually a good thing — and it's not the end of the female leader. Instead, it's the beginning of a new space for more inclusive leaders to shine without being defined by gender.
The female founder trying to crack the glass ceiling isn't a new concept, but 2014 was the year she got a new name.
With Girlboss, Sophia Amoruso Is Using Past Failures To Fuel Her Latest Success
That year, Sophia Amoruso wrote the now-famous memoir
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