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Sophia Amoruso’s Founder Story
Serial entrepreneur SOPHIA AMORUSO’s business acumen is matched by her grit. As in her interview with Steven Bartlett on Diary of a CEO, Amoruso’s engaging storytelling of entrepreneurial highs and lows keeps any crowd engaged.
She discusses what she wishes she knew before starting out, the struggles behind entrepreneurship, and the aspects of personality and character important to succeeding as an entrepreneur. In her keynotes, fireside chats, and Q&As, Amoruso’s candid advice is shared through personal anecdotes of hard-earned wisdom.
How to be a Girl Boss
Entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author SOPHIA AMORUSO tells the story of how the Girl Boss community really came to be and her efforts to uplift other founders. Combining both the personal and professional stories behind her many business endeavors, Amoruso discusses the importance of sparking innovation.
Amoruso has built a community celebrating the passion and ingenuity of up-and-coming woman-owned businesses across the country. Amoruso helps audiences envision the success they can achieve. She shares her thoughts on leadership and passion to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Marketing in a World of Hyper Growth
As an expert in business, e-commerce, and content creation, SOPHIA AMORUSO addresses the realities of our digital marketing landscape today. Her continuous success as an entrepreneur and founder provides an inspiring example of how to push forward with the emergence of new technologies. She shares some of the lessons in agility learned on the entrepreneurial journey – the good and the bad.
Personal growth & professional success with Sophia Amoruso
Entrepreneur, investor, and bestselling author SOPHIA AMORUSO is no stranger to mixing her personal and professional selves. Her New York Times bestselling memoir #GIRLBOSS, detailed her early life and experiences as a founder in tandem. She freely shares the story of growing up while growing her brand in a way that audiences find refreshing and uplifting.
Amoruso openly discusses side hustles, the personality traits necessary for success, and the necessity of failing before you fly. Knowing how closely intertwined the identities of self and career become in pursuit of the Girl Boss ideal, Amoruso addresses her own experiences with the same grace and reflection as she does her business stories. Groups including Ford, Inbound, TechCrunch Disrupt, and more have sought out her insights on how personal growth and professional success go hand in hand.
Creative entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso inspires global brands
Entrepreneur, investor, and New York Times bestselling author SOPHIA AMORUSO knows the secrets to building a memorable brand. Major global brands such as Dell, Porsche, Amex, Amazon, Squarespace, and more have tapped her for large-scale content collaborations. Amoruso’s unmatched skill in content creation is often considered her overlook engine of entrepreneurial success.
Often, these collaborations serve a greater, community-building purpose. Amoruso teamed up with financial service vendor SoFi to create a free, woman-first guide to financial literacy. By working hard and paying it forward, Amoruso continues to support women across her entrepreneurial and philanthropic endeavors.
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Girlboss: Sophia Amoruso teaches the way of the modern businesswoman
Creative visionary, entrepreneur, and industry disruptor SOPHIA AMORUSO has forged an unprecedented path in building modern brands.
Amoruso was sought-out by Ad Age Remotely to discuss her plans to pull off a large-scale virtual Girlboss rally. As part of her virtual Girlboss Rally, Amoruso and her team created a series of tangible, creative, and instantly implementable e-guides and virtual resources on making bold professionals and personal choices in these challenging times. Recently, she founded Business Class, a comprehensive 10-week digital course for entrepreneurs, creatives, and freelancers. She has already built a community of over three thousand founders across the globe. Amoruso is an expert in online community-building. Her natural ability to inspire motivates those around her to pursue their dreams, as founders or in any discipline.
Amoruso reframes the concept model of “success” for the modern woman. From the dressing room to the board room, she shares how to follow your passions to the top of the world.
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Sophia Amoruso is the Founder & General Partner at Trust Fund, an early-stage venture fund focused on pre- and seed stage companies.
In 2020, Sophia founded Business Class, a comprehensive 10-week digital course for entrepreneurs, creatives, and freelancers, which has built a community of over 3,000 founders across the globe.
In 2017, Sophia founded Girlboss, a community for ambitious women. Sophia also hosted podcast Girlboss Radio from 2015-2020, which garnered over 20 million downloads. In December 2019, it was announced that Girlboss had been acquired by Attention Capital.
Her 2014 New York Times Bestseller #GIRLBOSS, which chronicled her early life as well as her experience as the founder of fashion empire Nasty Gal, was adapted into a scripted TV series that premiered on Netflix in 2017 and was produced by Charlize Theron. Sophia has also authored two other books: Nasty Galaxy and The Girlboss Workbook.
Sophia made her mark when she founded Nasty Gal in 2006 and bootstrapped it to $28 million profitably, raising $60 million in venture capital and scaling the business to over $100 million in revenue. Sophia became a member of the CFDA in 2016.
Sophia has been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine's 2016 "America's Richest Self-Made Women" issue and featured in the Fortune "40 under 40," Forbes "30 under 30," Inc. "30 under 30," and Fast Company’s "Most Creative People in Business" lists.
She resides in Los Angeles, CA with her 3 toy poodles.
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