Amoruso bootstrapped Nasty Gal to $28M revenue, retaining 80% ownership
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Sophia Amoruso recounts the cap table dynamics and financial scale of Nasty Gal prior to raising venture capital.
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“I bootstrapped Nasty Gal to twenty-eight million dollars in revenue. I didn't need investors. And I did it because, like, okay, I had a three hundred and fifty million dollar valuation. You know, I raised, the first money in was out of a growth fund. So I owned 80% of it when it was worth three hundred and fifty million dollars.”
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