Sophia Amoruso - Founder of Nasty Gal, Founder & General Partner at Trust Fund, and Founder of Business Class

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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I sat down with Sophia Amoruso, Founder & General Partner at Trust Fund, and Founder of Business Class to discuss some of the best lessons she learned from launching Nasty Gal. We chatted about why you don’t have to be a “business person” or be an academic to be a successful entrepreneur, as well as how she’s empowering the next generation of entrepreneurs with advice and capital. You can learn more about Sophia’s projects at https://www.trustfund.vc/ and https://www.businessclass.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is The Playbook.
0:04.4	This is Dave Meltzer with Entrepreneurs The Playbook, and I love
0:08.0	when I have a pure breed entrepreneur, Sophia Amaruso.
0:13.3	She is the founding and general partner at Trust Fund and the
0:16.8	founder of Business Class. Welcome to The Playbook, Sophia.
0:20.8	Hi, David. Thanks for having me.
0:23.2	I'm so happy to have you here. Every time I watch you, every time I
0:27.2	talk to you, there's always something bigger and better, and that's how I
0:30.7	know when I talk about the purity of an entrepreneur, someone that
0:34.5	energetically and genetically inherited this sickness that I have
0:39.6	and can create abundance with it. For you, when did you realize that
0:45.0	you do have that inherent genetic and energetic inheritance of
0:49.9	you must be what you can be and you must make
0:52.7	impact by utilizing what you can be? Yeah, I think impact kind of
0:58.2	him behind what was my curiosity into entrepreneurship.
1:04.8	And I didn't even consider entrepreneurship. So I started an e-base store when I was
1:08.8	22 in 2006 and Skull Nasty Gal and eventually, you know, had a website and
1:14.3	curated other brands and did over a hundred million dollars in revenue.
1:17.6	But it started with a little marketplace, not little, but before Etsy,
1:22.5	you know, before you could build a website on Shopify, it was so challenging.
1:27.0	I was just going down kind of like the rabbit hole, I guess, of one foot in
1:30.4	front of the other solving problems. Oh, wow, if I take a photo better, I write a
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