Amoruso confirms most of the show was accurate to her life.
In 2016, it was announced that Netflix would be adapting her autobiography into a television series called Girlboss. In 2014, Amoruso's autobiography #GIRLBOSS was published by Portfolio, a Penguin imprint that specializes in books about business. Also, in 2013, Business Insider named Sophia Amoruso one of the sexiest CEOs alive. Magazine named her to its 30 under 30 list. The New York Times has called her "a Cinderella of tech". At the peak of Nasty Gal, it was pulling in 100 million in annual sales, with over 200 employees. It quickly grew with revenues increasing from $223,000 in 2008 to almost $23 million in 2011. Nasty Gal developed an online following of young women on social media. Amoruso was also accused of artificially inflating bids, which she has denied. She has previously said that she left voluntarily because of the rules preventing sellers from leaving negative feedback for customers. Following this, she launched Nasty Gal as its own retail website, continuing to grow the business as a stand-alone online store. Amoruso claims to have been banned from eBay in 2008 for posting hyperlinks in feedback to customers. In 2006 her eBay store, Nasty Gal Vintage, blew up in a way Amoruso didn't think possible, turning into a 1 million dollar yearly revenue business after 6 years and continuing to grow. Īmoruso began her business working out of her bedroom. She styled, photographed, captioned, and shipped the products herself using what she was taught in a photography class. The first item she sold was a book she had stolen as a teenager. The store consisted of used vintage clothing and other items. Career eBay store Īt age 22 while working as a security guard at San Francisco's Academy of Art University, Amoruso opened an online eBay store, which she called Nasty Gal Vintage, named after the 1975 album by funk singer and style icon Betty Davis. To get the health insurance for surgery, she worked in the Academy of Art University lobby checking student IDs. She left Portland and relocated to San Francisco, shortly after she discovered she had a hernia in her groin. In 2003, while living in Portland, Oregon, she stopped stealing after being caught shoplifting.
After high school, her parents divorced and she moved to Sacramento, California to live a more free lifestyle.Īs a young adult, Amoruso lived a nomadic lifestyle, hitchhiking on the West Coast, dumpster diving, and stealing. 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 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. She was raised in the Greek Orthodox church.
She is of Greek, Italian, and Portuguese descent. Amoruso was born in San Diego, California, in 1984.