Sophia Amoruso
Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Fund. On 3 shows, 13 appearances, plus 1 compilation re-air not counted. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Sophia Amoruso is the founder of e-commerce brand Nasty Gal and media company Girlboss, and author of the memoir #GIRLBOSS. She currently serves as Managing Partner of the early-stage venture capital firm Trust Fund.
3shows
13appearances
71statements
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5supported
1contradicted
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19said about them ↓ Everything Sophia Amoruso said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Amoruso: Most consumer businesses are not actually venture scalable
“Consumer isn't something that I really wanted to focus on, even though that's my background, I don't think that for the most part, consumer businesses are venture scalable”
Amoruso gave a portfolio startup direct access to her LinkedIn DMs
“One of my portfolio companies, I just gave them carte blanche access to my LinkedIn DMs, and they will reach out to people that I am like tangentially connected to, and say, as me, and be like, hey, I love what you're doing with such and such beauty company, s…”
Index Ventures preferred holding Nasty Gal at cost over a down round
“Index preferred to hold nasty gal at cost than do a down round.”
Amoruso will no longer build identity-based consumer brands
“Honestly, I don't want to play into people's identities anymore. I've played enough in that realm. I just want to be really good at things and build things that people love that aren't necessarily like I'm a blank because. That can get outdated.”
Amoruso: VCs push founders toward paper markups to impress LPs
“Venture capitalists are beholden to their LPs or the bigger fish that invest in them as one asset that is among a variety of diversified assets. It's their job to, on paper, take your company and say, nasty gal is worth three hundred and fifty million today wh…”
Amoruso: HR is where complaints die and payroll needs no specialist
“I think HR is where complaints, I think HR is where complaints go to die. I think anybody can administer benefits and payroll. I think learning and development is important, and I think all of the benefits that we're talking about can be run by someone much mo…”
Amoruso: Index Ventures built Nasty Gal's pitch deck for $50M investment
“When Index invested fifty million dollars, they literally made a deck. I had never made a presentation, and they were like, we want to invest so much in this company. They propped me up in the boardroom in front of all their partners and just said, like, speak…”
Amoruso predicts portfolio company Agree.com will eventually replace DocuSign
“And they're like, you know, they're a company that's going to replace DocuSign.”
Women in 'Founder Mode' face a double standard for directness
“I think they're, you know, what we get into here is this double standard where if you're in founder mode as a woman, I mean, I was just talking to my friends about this last night, and they work At a crypto startup, and they do experience that. They're conside…”
Amoruso predicts Sergey Brin will be the world's first trillionaire
“You know, Sergey Brin was just on the All In podcast and talking about, you know, he jumped back into Google and is kind of all in on AI and, you know, he's like one of the smartest people I know. So I would, my bet would be Sergey.”
Amoruso: First Online Sales Were Stolen Books on Amazon at Age 17
“The first stuff I sold online was actually on Amazon as a book reseller. But I was selling stolen books. I was, like, 17.”
Amoruso: Strict daily habits do not always correlate with high achievement
“And the whole like habits of highly successful people thing doesn't always correlate with people who are considered highly successful.”
Amoruso: Nasty Gal should probably have been sold before raising VC
“I probably should have sold nasty gal long, you know, before I raised venture capital, cause it was an incredibly profitable, successful business.”
Amoruso: Three-hour morning routines promoted on social media are a scam
“I think it's a scam. I think it's really dangerous to inspire people with a lifestyle or a morning that takes three hours and, you know, unless you can go to bed at nine PM, it's not possible for most of us and it makes most of us feel bad.”
Amoruso: It is okay for founders to take a year to make no decisions
“I think it's okay. For a year to stop and make no decisions and that to be your goal and to sit with not knowing and ambiguity in the liminal space.”
Amoruso: Founders do not need a 'hustle at all costs' mentality
“There's a lot of rhetoric for entrepreneurs just around like, you need to do whatever it takes to get done. You're a crazy one. You're a misfit, like hustle, hustle, hustle. And that's not necessarily for everybody. And you can be an entrepreneur without neces…”
Amoruso: Entrepreneurial persistence is often masochism mistaken for resilience
“Entrepreneurs can be masochists. And that can look like resilience, which I just don't even, those are like, those things stand in such contrast to one another.”
Amoruso: Treating a company like your baby causes unhealthy attachment
“And I think speaking to that, the whole, like, your business, and I've heard this so many times, like, your business is your baby, and it's like, it's not my baby, stop telling me that, you don't know anything about me or my motivations, and it's like, no, it'…”
Amoruso turned down a $400 million buyout offer for Nasty Gal
“An urban retailer of millennial clothing once offered over four hundred million dollars for my company for nasty gal. I owned 80% of it. I would have Pocketed three hundred and twenty million dollars.”
Amoruso: Culture and learning retain employees, not health insurance perks
“They're gonna leave your company because your culture sucks, or because they're not learning, or because somebody's micromanaging them. Like, yes, it's a carrot, but it's not what keeps people around.”
Amoruso: Effective Leaders Need Healthy Avoidance to Deputize Problem-Solving
“There's a really healthy amount of avoidance that a leader needs to have to redirect people to solve their own problems instead of allow your team to come to you, ask you what you think about it or how you should solve the problem and deputize them to come bac…”
Amoruso: Therapists Usually Lack Understanding of Executive Leadership Pressures
“Therapists don't have the understanding of what leadership really looks like often in a way that consumes our lives as much as our time with our families or our friends and the other things we might go to a therapist about, but they can't speak to you at all.”
Peak branding is when customers adopt a brand as their identity
“The peak thing you can do as a brand is have someone who's your customer or reader, you know, girl boss ended up becoming a media company after it was a book and a Netflix series, start a sentence With I am and put your brand name at the end.”
Modern B2B software companies must present themselves like consumer brands
“The way software companies need to present themselves today is as a consumer business because they're not, like, people aren't Doing, like, outreach sales one-to-one in the same ways that they were, and there's so much more competition.”
The other half of the tape: Sophia Amoruso's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 19 times in 5 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →
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Founder's Journal 19
2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 3 mentions in 1 episode
2023 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 1 episode
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| FOUNDER'S JOURNALLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Fund | 11 +1 | 40 | 67% 2/3 | full record on Founder's Journal → |
 SOURCERYLEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Fund | 1 | 18 | 100% 2/2 | full record on Sourcery → |
 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Fund | 1 | 13 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Masters of Scale → |