Sophia Amoruso
27 statements across 10 episodes · 5 bullish · 7 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 11, 2022 by Sophia Amoruso · said 19 times in 5 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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2023 10 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
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Oct 11, 2022
Amoruso: Online Courses Helping Customers Make or Save Money Sell Themselves
“People are going to spend money to make money. They're not going to spend money. They may spend money on needle craft courses. I'm sure they do, especially during COVID. But if you're going to create a course, creating one that is going to make people or save …”
Oct 11, 2022 positive
Oct 11, 2022 positive
Oct 18, 2022
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…”
Oct 18, 2022 neutral
Amoruso: Underpaying founder salaries artificially inflates company profitability
“Also, if you don't pay yourself enough, it, when people look at your numbers, it inflates your profitability. So investors want you to pay yourself something that's appropriate because long-term your company, they, you know, you will pay yourself appropriately…”
Oct 18, 2022 neutral
Oct 18, 2022 negative
Amoruso: Angel portfolio founders face bridge round pullouts and down rounds
“I have a lot of founders, you know, in my angel investment portfolio who are coming to me, whose investors are pulling out of bridge rounds, who are raising the You know, flat rounds or raising down rounds just to get money in the door, and they're asking for …”
Oct 25, 2022 neutral
Nov 1, 2022 positive
Amoruso: Building a distinct brand on marketplaces allows multi-platform expansion
“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…”
Nov 8, 2022 positive
Nov 15, 2022 neutral
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 15, 2022 negative
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…”
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 15, 2022 negative
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…”
Dec 6, 2022
Dec 6, 2022 bearish
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.”
Dec 6, 2022 negative
Dec 13, 2022
Amoruso: Runs $400K–$500K in Annual Ad Spend on Delta Amex Cards
“I use the Delta Reserve. It's like Amex Delta Reserve credit card. It's like this purple card. I have one for Amaru's own co, which is one business. I have one for business class. And then I use one personally. I have three of these purple cards and we run all…”
Dec 20, 2022 neutral
Dec 20, 2022 positive
Dec 20, 2022 neutral
Amoruso: Inquire about domains anonymously to prevent sellers from inflating prices
“I want to just Say that if you're looking to buy a domain name, just make some random email address. If it has, do not have any name or email address associated with a successful business because they will jack up the price.”
Dec 20, 2022 neutral
Dec 20, 2022 neutral
Amoruso: Founders often stay busy to escape unresolved personal issues
“We can be running towards something, but we can also be running from things, and it's important to check ourselves and make sure that we're not occupying ourselves to escape something that we're avoiding personally that we've got to deal with before we can rea…”
Dec 27, 2022 negative
Dec 27, 2022 negative
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.”