Sophia Amoruso

Sophia Amoruso
Amoruso in 2014
Born
Sophia Christina Amoruso

(1984-04-20) April 20, 1984 (age 40)
OccupationEntrepreneur
Spouse
Joel DeGraff
(m. 2015; div. 2017)

Sophia Christina Amoruso (born April 20, 1984)[1] is an American businesswoman. Amoruso founded Nasty Gal, a women's fashion retailer, which went on to be named one of "the fastest growing companies" by Inc. Magazine in 2012.[2] In 2016, she was named one of the richest self-made women in the world by Forbes.[3] However, Nasty Gal filed for bankruptcy.[4] In 2017, Amoruso founded Girlboss Media,[5][6] 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 a television series of the same name for Netflix.

  1. ^ "Sophia Christina Amoruso". California Birth Index. Retrieved September 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Fenn, Donna. "Unselfconsciously Sexy Style". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  3. ^ O'Connor, Clare (June 1, 2016). "Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso Hits Richest Self-Made Women List With $280 Million Fortune". Forbes. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  4. ^ O'Connor, Clare. "As Nasty Gal Files Bankruptcy, Founder Sophia Amoruso's Fortune Decimated". Forbes. Retrieved 2017-08-31.
  5. ^ Johnson, Eric (2018-03-02). "What did Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso learn from failure?". Vox. Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  6. ^ Segran, Elizabeth (2019-12-17). "Exclusive: Sophia Amoruso is selling Girlboss to a holding startup that wants to fix media". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-02-27.

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