Sophia Amoruso: The Lesson I Paid $400 Million to Learn

About this episode

She started selling vintage on eBay with no business school, no business plan, and no idea what a P&L was. She built it into a $350M empire. Then it was gone. No co-founder. No safety net. Just instinct — and the brutal lessons that came when instinct wasn't enough. In this episode, Sophia Amoruso — founder of Nasty Gal, author of #Girlboss, and now investor at Trust Fund backing the next generation of founders — breaks down what really happened inside one of the most public rises and falls in modern business. In this episode: ◼️ How she turned vintage eBay flips into a $350M empire — and why obsessing over taste, not revenue, is what made Nasty Gal impossible to copy ◼️ Why she turned down…