num_pages: 256
description: In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called Lean In for misfits Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world. Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking committing petty theft and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school and was broke directionless and checking IDs in the lobby of an art school a job shed taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward ten years to today and shes the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO or a typical anything and shes written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers. #GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isnt about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. Its about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.' to 'In the New York Times bestseller that the Washington Post called Lean In for misfits Sophia Amoruso shares how she went from dumpster diving to founding one of the fastest-growing retailers in the world Sophia Amoruso spent her teens hitchhiking committing petty theft and scrounging in dumpsters for leftover bagels. By age twenty-two she had dropped out of school and was broke directionless and checking IDs in the lobby of an art schoola job shed taken for the health insurance. It was in that lobby that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Flash forward ten years to today and shes the founder and executive chairman of Nasty Gal a $250-million-plus fashion retailer with more than four hundred employees. Sophia was never a typical CEO or a typical anything and shes written #GIRLBOSS for other girls like her: outsiders (and insiders) seeking a unique path to success even when that path is windy as all hell and lined with naysayers. #GIRLBOSS proves that being successful isnt about where you went to college or how popular you were in high school. Its about trusting your instincts and following your gut; knowing which rules to follow and which to break; when to button up and when to let your freak flag fly.'
language: English
title: #Girlboss
publisher: Portfolio