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Sophia Amoruso

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  1. “Yeah, Craigslist in the newspaper. Yeah. Line up with all these people that were, I don't know, way older than me at like 6 a.m. to be the first people in and I just run straight for the closet and hope whoever died had great style.”

    2015-10-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #112: The Nasty Icon of Retail, Sophia Amoruso · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Let me think. At the time I don't know, none of them are just none of them are a real gold mine anymore. I like to state sales a lot because you can encounter people who have no idea what they have. That's becoming a rarer and rarer and thrift stores are like on to vintage being valuable.”

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  3. “It was like all I wore. So I just spent my youth in thrift stores discovering just unearthing stuff that no one else wanted that I thought was really special. And I made a career out of it.”

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  4. “and had a friend model for free, you know, and just found some. There's something called watching, which is basically like you're like monitoring it or adding to your favorites. You want to see what happens with the auction over the course of a week or 10 days.”

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  5. “And so I was getting friendless requests on MySpace from eBay sellers that were promoting their businesses on MySpace. And I wore almost entirely vintage at the time and I knew where to find it. And I saw the prices that these vintage pieces were fetching on eBay and said, hey, I can find them for way cheaper. I know how to take a picture. I'm pretty sure I know how to use the internet. And eBay was a great place to start. There's a kind of like a framework for you to sell online. And it's really easy today. But then building a website, like a web shop wasn't, it wasn't as easy. So started with eBay and you also have a built-in customer base there. You put something and you can test like what works or if people like your taste, you know, your taste or what you have to bring to the table. So I bought eBay for dummies.”

    2015-10-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #112: The Nasty Icon of Retail, Sophia Amoruso · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “And I got that job because I needed to have a hernia fixed. I don't know how I got a hernia, but I had no health insurance, so I had to get a job so I could get health insurance so I could get my hernia fixed. And I had to work at this job for three months to get health insurance. So I did, but I was working in the lobby just like checking student IDs and sometimes worked like late at night and was bad time to kill on the internet and was getting friend requests on MySpace. I'm not sure if anyone remembers.”

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  7. “This is here in the Bay Area. Yeah, it was a super cool bookstore in San Francisco. But I don't know. I was like working at the Academy of Art University in downtown San Francisco.”

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  8. “Yeah, I never worked in a clothing store and it wasn't, you know, eBay was definitely not my way into the fashion industry. That was not my intention. I just was kind of flailing. I wanted to be a photographer, but figuring out how to like schmooze in the art world or talk about my photography and make stuff up about why it was important or all of that stuff just seemed like not right for me and not like people were inviting me to do shows, although I did have a show at Adobe Books before they went extinct. Did you ever go there?”

    2015-10-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #112: The Nasty Icon of Retail, Sophia Amoruso · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Once, only once. An awful person. And then, so I got back in my car and drove. I was in a like 1991 Honda Civic with little like, like a little racing steering wheel. It was pretty funny. And I drove down the street and stopped at a gas station and got out and it was like step, step triumph, just like, oh my. I didn't even make it inside, and it was just like, you know, when something like that happens to you. You wonder if you're going to spend the rest of your life doing that uncontrollably because it's just so shocking. It just shouldn't happen. And I just like, I had to get back in my car and like finish, like finish. And then I had to drive home and sitting in my...”

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  10. “Or whatever it's like, it was like gnarly pepperoni pizza, just like mouthfuls of cheese. Anyway, I was like, oh no, I don't want to use this guy's bathroom. I'm not sure what's going on here, but I should probably leave. So after like 15 minutes at his house, I left and I started driving down the street. It wasn't like, oh, geez, well, if I find a toy, then I'll be happy about it. It was like, oh, I really need a toilet. And I stopped at this liquor store and walked inside and I was like, do you guys have a restroom I can use? And they were like, no, sorry, it's for employees only. I thought age, it would have been confusing if I had lied and said I was pregnant. I've done that before.”

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  11. “Oh my God. Well, I was at this guy's house. I was like 16 years old. I was at this guy's house who was like this amazing bassist. He played this thing called a war guitar, which is based, it's like a bass with, I don't know, a ton of strings on it. And you basically just play the fretboard. And he was just like this weird, like, progy musician who I thought was super cool. And he was like, I don't know, maybe he was like 19. I thought that was amazing. And I went to his house, he like lived with his dad and got there like 15 minutes, my stomach was just like, uh-oh. I had eaten some pepperoni pizza, I think, like the kind That has cheese that you can almost drink, like not like, you know, not like boutique-y, LA.”

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  12. “If I don't know them, I just say I have an online fashion business and I try to leave it at that. And if they ask, it depends on who it is. But I started a company called NastyGal in 2006 as an eBay store selling vintage clothing. And whatever, like a lot of entrepreneurs just did everything myself, did what needed to happen, just ran a little eBay store, but it wasn't little for very long, left eBay about a year and a half later and launched NastyGal.com, which is now kind of a full-on fashion e-commerce destination. We carry brands. We design our own product, and we still sell vintage. And I guess I'm an author, so there's that to you. I wrote a book last year that spent a bunch of time on the bestseller list, and it was called Girl Boss. It's called hashtag girl boss, but saying hashtag out loud is kind of weird.”

    2015-10-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #112: The Nasty Icon of Retail, Sophia Amoruso · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  13. “For breakfast, I had a cup of coffee with two shots and heavy cream and actually an Americano with two shots of coffee and heavy cream. And I had a smoothie with apple and yogurt and some shit in it.”

    2015-10-13 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #112: The Nasty Icon of Retail, Sophia Amoruso · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT