#72 with Sophia Amoruso - GIRLBOSS

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today we hang out with Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso), founder of Nasty Gal & Girlboss. Her story is bananas. She is a community college dropout who created a company that at its peak was valued over $400M+. She has had highs (sold over 500k copies of her book) & lows (nasty gal eventually crumbled) and we talk about both. I was pretty blown away by her honesty. She wasn't trying to make herself sound good or look good (which ironically, made her sound/look great to me). We start with some fun topics like The Bachelor & her favorite cars she's owned (2:23), About her background and businesses (4:45), The story of Nasty Gal: $30m revenue, Index putting $50M investment and her selling life changing secondary (6:44), Expectations after raising venture capital (11:31), Starting conference businesses (15:54), Being a starter vs. operator (17:16), Downsides of being the CEO (20:52), How she got her book to sell 500K copies (24:54), Her investment portfolio of startups and funds (29:17), What's in store for her in the next 10 years? (32:45), Freemium vs Subscription for content (37:13), Opportunities and trends she's seen in the media + retail space (40:06) and Sam's great book recommendation with a horrible - How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis (43:27) Today's ep is possible because of Superside! Head to www.superside.com to hire a dedicated team of designers for your project! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got.
0:04.9	I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
0:07.8	And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money
0:12.7	using things that you already have.
0:15.1	Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple.
0:19.6	It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm going to tell you about in a second, but he has
0:23.3	this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this
0:26.9	book.
0:27.9	It's called How to Make Money With What You Already Have.
0:29.4	It's an incredible episode.
0:30.9	It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book.
0:33.2	The host is Donald Miller.
0:34.7	I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this
0:37.9	is totally by coincidence.
0:38.9	There was all separate people.
0:40.2	They said you have to check out Donald Miller.
0:42.0	He's amazing.
0:43.0	So I'm happy that he's part of Howspot's Podcast Network.
0:45.5	You can check it out.
0:46.5	Business Made Simple Podcast.
0:47.9	It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane where the cockpit
0:52.1	is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left
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