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Sophia Amoruso | Building Nasty Gal, Turning Down $400M, and Losing it All

The Peel

2 April 2026 · Startups & Building

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Sophia Amoruso is the Founder of Nasty Gal and Trust Fund, an early stage venture capital firm.

We talk through her journey of starting Nasty Gal as an Ebay store in 2006 to sell vintage clothing, bootstrapping it to $28 million in revenue, raising $50 million, scaling it to $120 million and a mass

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