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Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Christina Amoruso (born April 20, 1984) is an American businesswoman. Amoruso founded Nasty Gal, a women's fast fashion retailer, which went on to be named one of "the fastest growing companies" by Inc. Magazine in 2012. In 2016, she was named one of the richest self-made women in the world by Forbes. However, in 2016, Nasty Gal filed for bankruptcy.
In 2017, Amoruso founded Girlboss Media, a company that creates content for women in the millennial generation to progress as people in their personal and professional life.
Her 2014 autobiography #GIRLBOSS was adapted into the Netflix series Girlboss.
Amoruso was born In 1984 in San Diego, California at Sharp Memorial Hospital. She grew up in the suburbs and wanted to leave home because her parents did not get along. She is of Greek, Italian, and Portuguese American descent. She was raised in the Greek Orthodox church. After being diagnosed with depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in her adolescence, she dropped out of school and began homeschooling to help cope with these issues. Her first job as a teenager was at a Subway restaurant, followed by various odd jobs, including working in a bookstore and a record shop. After high school, her parents divorced and she moved to Sacramento, California, to live a freer lifestyle.
As a young adult, Amoruso lived a nomadic lifestyle, hitchhiking on the West Coast, dumpster diving, and stealing. In 2003, while living in Portland, Oregon, she stopped stealing after being caught shoplifting. She left Portland and relocated to San Francisco, shortly after she discovered she had a hernia in her groin. To get the health insurance for surgery, she worked in the Academy of Art University lobby checking student IDs.
As of 2025, Amoruso is the founder and managing partner of Trust Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups.
At age 22, while working as a security guard at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Amoruso started an eBay store called Nasty Gal Vintage. The name was inspired by a 1975 album by funk singer Betty Davis. The store sold vintage clothing and other secondhand items. The first item she sold was a book she had taken as a teenager. Amoruso handled all aspects of the business herself, including styling, photography, writing product descriptions, and shipping orders, using skills learned in a photography class.
She began the business from her bedroom, and by 2006, Nasty Gal Vintage had grown significantly. After six years, it generated about $1 million in annual revenue. In 2008, Amoruso was banned from eBay for including hyperlinks in customer feedback. She later launched Nasty Gal as a standalone online retail website. Amoruso has said she chose to leave eBay due to policies that prevented sellers from leaving negative feedback for buyers. She was also accused of artificially increasing bids, a claim she has denied.
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Sophia Amoruso
Sophia Christina Amoruso (born April 20, 1984) is an American businesswoman. Amoruso founded Nasty Gal, a women's fast fashion retailer, which went on to be named one of "the fastest growing companies" by Inc. Magazine in 2012. In 2016, she was named one of the richest self-made women in the world by Forbes. However, in 2016, Nasty Gal filed for bankruptcy.
In 2017, Amoruso founded Girlboss Media, a company that creates content for women in the millennial generation to progress as people in their personal and professional life.
Her 2014 autobiography #GIRLBOSS was adapted into the Netflix series Girlboss.
Amoruso was born In 1984 in San Diego, California at Sharp Memorial Hospital. She grew up in the suburbs and wanted to leave home because her parents did not get along. She is of Greek, Italian, and Portuguese American descent. She was raised in the Greek Orthodox church. After being diagnosed with depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in her adolescence, she dropped out of school and began homeschooling to help cope with these issues. Her first job as a teenager was at a Subway restaurant, followed by various odd jobs, including working in a bookstore and a record shop. After high school, her parents divorced and she moved to Sacramento, California, to live a freer lifestyle.
As a young adult, Amoruso lived a nomadic lifestyle, hitchhiking on the West Coast, dumpster diving, and stealing. In 2003, while living in Portland, Oregon, she stopped stealing after being caught shoplifting. She left Portland and relocated to San Francisco, shortly after she discovered she had a hernia in her groin. To get the health insurance for surgery, she worked in the Academy of Art University lobby checking student IDs.
As of 2025, Amoruso is the founder and managing partner of Trust Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage startups.
At age 22, while working as a security guard at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Amoruso started an eBay store called Nasty Gal Vintage. The name was inspired by a 1975 album by funk singer Betty Davis. The store sold vintage clothing and other secondhand items. The first item she sold was a book she had taken as a teenager. Amoruso handled all aspects of the business herself, including styling, photography, writing product descriptions, and shipping orders, using skills learned in a photography class.
She began the business from her bedroom, and by 2006, Nasty Gal Vintage had grown significantly. After six years, it generated about $1 million in annual revenue. In 2008, Amoruso was banned from eBay for including hyperlinks in customer feedback. She later launched Nasty Gal as a standalone online retail website. Amoruso has said she chose to leave eBay due to policies that prevented sellers from leaving negative feedback for buyers. She was also accused of artificially increasing bids, a claim she has denied.
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