Nasty Gal

“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…”

“In my personal bank account there's 9000 dollars, and in the business bank account there's 900,000 dollars.”

“I think over time, I've probably, my businesses have laid off 300 people.”

“When you're building on a marketplace, what's especially hard is to create a brand. And that was something that made nasty gal stand out in a way just among the pack. And that's something that I think people, a lot of people don't think about even on these mar…”

“When I took. Fifty million from index ventures and the comp, my company was profitable and didn't really need it. That was a really big deal. And that's, I owned 80% of that and it's rare, but it's possible.”

“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.”

“There's nothing more peak for a brand than to build a culture where somebody is able to identify with it, not just identify with it, but propagate that term, Publicly because they're proud of it.”

“So I contacted them anonymously and I bought it for 8000 dollars.”

“I probably should have sold nasty gal long, you know, before I raised venture capital, cause it was an incredibly profitable, successful business.”