With Girlboss, Sophia Amoruso Is Using Past Failures to Fuel Her Latest SuccessAnd she's launching a brand new social network to help other women thrive.
ByLiz Brody•
This story appears in theOctober 2018issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
During the spring of 2017 the world was getting nasty toward Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso. It wasn't a treatment she was used to. Until then, she'd been an entrepreneurial darling: the It-girl founder of a booming clothing retailer, frequent subject of magazine covers (includingEntrepreneur's: January 2013), regular headliner ofconferences, and author of a best-selling memoir. And then, on April 21, the TV version of Sophia streamed out to 130 million Netflix members. It was a comedy calledGirlboss,based on her book—a loose retelling of Amoruso's life ("real loose," the opening credits stress), in which a 22-year-old Dumpster-diving college dropout launches her fashion empire from an eBay store.
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