Girlboss Thrift Store Owner

At 22, Sophia Amoruso was selling secondhand clothing on eBay. Just a few years later, her online shop Nasty Gal posted revenue upward of USD 300 million and she cracked the Forbes list of richest women in the USA. Despite leaving Nasty Gal, Sophia continues to be a personal brand tour du force. In 2017, Netflix turned her memoir #GIRLBOSS into a hit series. Her newest venture, Girlboss, launched in 2017 and is a platform that helps women define success on their own terms, and offers them the tools they need to achieve, advance, and own their power. But what is the now 33 year old’s secret to success? Today, we’re taking a closer look at her success story—and announcing her as the next big speaker at Festival 2018 in Hamburg!

An 8 USD Chanel jacket in San Francisco—that’s where the legend of Nasty Gal begins. It was a local thrift store where Sophia Amoruso made the purchase in 2006, but it was on eBay where she resold it for more than USD 1000 and that’s when the proverbial lights went on.

One reason that Sophia’s clothing business on eBay boomed is that she recognized early on the potential in social media marketing. Even before Facebook’s big breakthrough, she had built up a significant community on Myspace, to whom she promoted her shop.

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But Sophia wasn’t simply satisfied addressing her audience directly through her marketing. She realized how important an optimized product page is for locating and boosting the appeal of her clothing, and therefore posted professionally looking images from other merchants—essentially boosting her eBay SEO and thus optimizing her rankings.

Beginning in 2008, Sophia ceased selling her clothes on eBbay and launched nastygalvintage.com, her own online shop. The decision, coupled with her good eye for trends and expertise in brand building, lead to an explosion in revenue. In 2015, Forbes projected revenues upward of USD 300 million. Amoruso’s net worth grew to USD 280 million, thus landing her on Forbes’ list of richest women in the US—ahead of superstars like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift.

Despite Nasty Gal’s success and the hype surrounding Sophia, the business was facing some hurdles. In 2015, Amoruso resigned as CEO of Nasty Gal after several rounds of layoffs took place, despite having raised USD 65 million in funding in the years before. In late 2016, the company filed for Chapter 11; and in early 2017, UK online fashion retailer Boohoo acquired Nasty Gal for USD 20 million.

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Sophia likes to think of her experience at Nasty Gal as her PhD in entrepreneurship. While Nasty Gal had its share of public struggles, her personal brand not only emerged unscathed, but continued to thrive. In 2014, she published her memoir #GIRLBOSS, which not only became a New York Times bestseller, but was also turned into a Netflix series in 2017. Although it was cancelled after just one season, the show further vaulted her personal brand into the realm of megastar.

With almost 100, 000 followers on Twitter and more than 600, 000 followers on Instagram, Sophia has a sizeable audience for her next venture: Girlboss. Amoruso launched the media company in 2017 with the goal of creating a platform to help women redefine success on their own terms. The company provides a wide range of tools for women to achieve, advance and own their power, from an editorial website (Girlboss.com), two podcasts (Girlboss Radio and Self-Service), Girlboss Rallies and The Girlboss Foundation that offers biannual grants to female creatives pursuing entrepreneurial endeavors. Last year, she raised USD 3.1 million in capital from Lightspeed Venture Partners, along with Gary Vaynerchuk, Troy Carter’s Atom Factory, Slow Ventures, BAM Ventures and Human Ventures.

It’s new territory for Amoruso, as media is certainly different from a retail business. For the first time, she’s not dealing with any physical wares or inventory. This is also the first time she has started a business intentionally, keeping in mind the knowledge gained from launching Nasty Gal, as well as the purpose of creating a meaningful brand.

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This March 23, Sophia Amoruso will be in Hamburg at the Festival to take the Conference stage and tell her unique story. How was Nasty Gal able to grow so quickly? How does one become a personal brand and what are the plusses and minuses involved? And just what are her concrete plans for her new company “Girlboss Media?” If you want to hear those answers straight from the source, then right this way.

Sophia, of course, is not the only top speaker you can see this March at 18. She’ll be joined by fitness superstar and businesswoman extraordinaire Kayla Itsines, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, marketing professor Scott Galloway, number genius/fortuneteller Nate Silver and many more. Here you can find the current lineup, which will continue to grow in the coming days and weeks leading up to 18 in Hamburg! may be over forever, but Netflix is here to save the day with their latest, just in time for your binge-watching pleasure. Girlboss has everything you’re looking for – killer vintage clothes, a rebellious fashion entrepreneur, and best of all it’s actually based on a true story.

Ever heard of Nasty Gal? The online retail platform that sells clothing to pretty much every girl attending Coachella. Think flower crowns, whimsical floral dresses, and chunky platform heels. The woman behind the website is Sophia Amoruso and she has my literal dream job – shopping for a living. Sophia, at her peak, was worth over $280 million dollars. It’s hard to believe that this successful CEO was once a broke dumpster-diver working a minimum wage job.

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Tells the story of Sophia’s rags-to-riches story. At age 17, she moved out of her family’s house and was squatting at different friends’ places in San Francisco. Sophia had always been interested in fashion and she had a knack for spotting high fashion labels in thrift stores. She decided to start an eBay shop to resell clothing she found in local second-hand stores.

Trailer shows Sophia, played by Britt Robertson, offering a mere $9 in exchange for an original, 1970’s East West leather jacket, which she resold for over $600. Filled with confidence, and with more money in her pocket than ever before, Sophia decided to break away from eBay and start her own website – Nasty Gal.

From that moment in 2006 on, Nasty Gal blew up. The business grew from one girl with a camera and a laptop to a company with over 550, 000 customers in 60 countries. Nasty Gal was named the “Fastest Growing Retailer” by INC Magazine in 2012. In 2014, Sophia wrote an autobiography, titled 

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, telling her story to the world. Now, Netflix is here to tell the rest of her story and we are here to watch…all thirteen episodes… in one day.One is that it's unironically awful, a wrong-headed celebration of a mean-spirited kind of narcissism. Another take on it – a slightly less persuasive one – is that Girlboss is to some degree a satire that chooses not to share the joke with a millennial cohort convinced that heedless self-absorption is a virtue.

In any case it's a distinctly unflattering portrayal of real-life entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso, who turned her one-woman operation selling vintage clothes on eBay into a business that at its peak was turning over nearly $US100 million a year (though it was soon filing for bankruptcy protection).

Staring sullenly from beneath her manic pixie dream girl fringe, her truculent attitude and theft of her boss' lunch gets her fired from her job at a shoe shop – at which point she steals a carpet from a carpet shop just so she can sit on it in the park.

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Of course, salvation is just a second-hand clothes shop away. At a vintage emporium owned by snarky hipster Mobias (Jim Rash, one of the few bright spots in the show), she finds a jacket that she sells for a motza on eBay – but not before letting Mobias know exactly how badly she just played him.

And so she's off in an unlovely little whirlwind of obsession. Sophia sucks the oxygen out of every room, giving the other characters little chance to pop into 3D. It's hard to imagine that her desultory love interest was written as a drummer for any reason other than to give Sophia the chance to do her own rim shots on his kit.

And she and the other characters tend to speak in an oddly affected manner – as if they're actors, acting, but exaggerating their acting just to make absolutely sure that you know that they're acting.

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K producer Kay Cannon are desperately dry of serviceable jokes – even RuPaul struggles to raise a chuckle as Sophia's pot-head neighbour. At least there's other stuff on TV.This thirteen episode series on Netflix is more about the vintage clothing industry than it is about old clothes.  In particular, it addresses the big changes that occurred in the vintage market starting around 2005. It is the story of one vintage seller, Sophia Amoruso, the founder of Nasty Gal Vintage, who turned

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