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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: 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 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: Peak branding is when consumers publicly adopt the brand's identity
“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.”
Amoruso: Owned 80% of Nasty Gal When Raising $50M from Index Ventures
“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.”
Amoruso bought the NastyGal.com domain anonymously for $8,000
“So I contacted them anonymously and I bought it for 8000 dollars.”
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…”