“Two hours a week.” But she also used the brand to launch a podcast and slowly grew the company over time. “I continued nurturing it very part-time,” she said. I was crying.” But Amoruso had also continued to nurture the Girlboss brand. I had - the world was having a bad day,” she answered. How do you pick yourself up after that?,” Bonatsos asked Amoruso. “That was in July, and then in November, on the day Trump was elected, we filed for Chapter 11. “So in 2016, in a six-month period, I was on the cover of Forbes and then a month later, my husband of a year left me,” she said. Nasty Gal shut down in 2016 - and even without that, it would’ve been a hard year for Amoruso. At Disrupt SF 2018, Girlboss CEO Sophia Amoruso sat down with former TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Bonatsos to talk about the success of Girlboss and the failure of Nasty Gal, Amoruso’s failed retail startup.
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