Second Life Podcast: Sophia Amoruso

Sophia Amoruso’s entrepreneurial career has been in the spotlight since her 2006 eBay store took off and became the pioneering online retailer, and phenomenon, Nasty Gal. The brand expanded beyond its initial collection of vintage to include curated designer pieces, as well as its own in-house label, and by 2015, Nasty Gal had grown to over $100 million in revenue. Amoruso was on the cover of Forbes and on Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business list and was touted as the rags-to-riches, million-dollar millennial #Girlboss—all by the time she was 32. But behind the scenes, Nasty Gal’s rocket-ship growth and $350 million valuation had put immense pressure on the business. “Having a valuation that high that early on was really the first nail in the coffin for us,” Amoruso tells Kerr in the latest episode of Second Life.Â

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Olivia Cappelletti