"didn't you get an offer to sell the company for 400 million dollars yeah I did what it made you super rich why didn't you say yes you're very good at this Sophia also founder of Nasty Gal A best-selli..."

"husband of like a year left the headlines weren't nice what is it like from a mental health perspective it's hard to pull yourself out of a hole when you don't want to get out of bed it's challenged m..."

"take me back to those suburbs in San Diego and give me your earliest context wow I was born in San Diego Sharp Memorial Hospital only child eternally and only child I think wound up having the persona..."

"early age what what did you what did you want at a very early age when you say you wanted out oh yeah what did you want yeah I wanted out of my family home it wasn't happy my parents didn't get along ..."

"affectionate after like an argument and even then it was like I don't know hand-holding or something they were very strict as well I had to beg to go to a boy's birthday party in sixth grade we weren'..."

"owned a motel and they all grew up on a motel so there's like generations of my family who wouldn't necessarily call themselves entrepreneurs but they're people who ate what they killed and that's wha..."

"was like adults were not trained to be parents and weren't any further along with their maturity sometimes than I was at my age you know I looked at teachers and thought wow you know you have domain e..."

"ways I don't know in some ways hold myself accountable because I'm always I almost want to say second guessing myself but also very um in a very I guess someone said Jesuit way at one point but a way ..."

"talking about your funnel there yeah he would critique you yes when you say critique do you mean oh that's that's naughty don't do that no no like that's not how you do something or why why'd you do i..."

"the way we view the world as a survival mechanism and he says one of the things that happens when we're in a where you were a young child and we're in a house where there's lots of arguing and lots of..."

"think we're all struggling to be a well-rounded person I don't know some people seem to like have these parents that teach them that and they come out and they're like yeah you know and it's not you k..."

"when you were 16. oh I went to see a psychiatrist when I was like 10. I mean I was in therapy when I was like 10 11. with what's trying to be diagnosed like what's wrong with her why can't she stay on..."

"mail I thought the like most embarrassing thing would be would be to wear the cap and gown I was like what is that I don't understand what's the tassel why do you have to wear a robe what is this robe..."

"even state tuition was expensive so I lived in Washington state for a year to get state to get residency so I could go to that school and by the time I got residency I was like this school's not gonna..."

"because it's forced me to make my own and force me to stay creative thinker and also I don't know I this isn't fair but the people in some of those communities like peaked and never left it's like you..."

"yeah they say I've read a new book where you said that you believe you hold the world record for having the most shitty jobs like back to back throughout that period of your life they say you know I'v..."

"so I'm like 20. Maybe 19. and I went to the sliding scale Women's Clinic and but but it was the only day I could get in but it also happened to be the day of my court date because I had gotten arreste..."

"you know doesn't it doesn't ever go that low there's clearly um a slight issue here with authority and it feels to me like the ultimate Authority which is the law eventually was like he can't [ __ ] w..."

"and when I did get caught I had like a George Foreman grill I think a basketball organic tampons some food really nice shower curtain rings they were metal and then they had like ceramic they were hea..."

"I would go into Barnes and Noble and they had a no chase policy like I knew what the policies were at these places because if their employees Chase someone shoplifting it's gonna cost them way much mo..."

"like who's carrying a huge stack of books I was right in the front of the store and I just like walked my car and I'd put them on Amazon for 10 cents less than all the other resellers I'd sell them ov..."

"way I never stole from individuals that was like not on thesis for me no I couldn't justify it I would never feel comfortable doing it um but big box retailers I was like over the last couple of how l..."

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"successful at that time I'm not sure a lot of people saw that price Arbitrage and they didn't build a nasty girl so when you reflect on why and how you were particularly successful how did you diagnos..."

"filtering out convention they can kind of see throughout the truth whereas convention like is safety it's Comfort it's it guarantees you a pre-tried blueprint so people follow that but then these othe..."

"when you start a business and you don't need to survive you might have more time to Naval gaze or you might do things super conventionally but when you need to survive there are certain things that ot..."

"send me to the Grave it happened so fast that's a quote um it was shocking how fast it all happened nasty girl went from doing 150 000 a year to doing 150 000 a day and then 150 000 over lunch yeah 15..."

"really well they got bought out within six months so they got a big return but good job yeah what do you attribute at such a young age I'm just gonna interview you for a second because you couldn't ha..."

"present which is why you want to hire a 16 year old that gets Tick Tock or whatever and you also need to hire someone that's maybe double their age experienced in client services and understands the o..."

"eventually you know 28 million dollar run rate super profitably I would never have known and so yeah year two left eBay about halfway through and launched my own website nastygalvintage.com and did 25..."

"with a 28 million run rate yeah you're profitable at that time significantly pretty significantly I have a 10 or 20 nothing I don't know I don't know I didn't even look at that I was I I never had to ..."

"what did it break hmm I mean we no longer had to live within our means that's what investor money does unless you maintain profitability and keep that money in the bank for you know another time or po..."

"story where uh people are building this Tower or something but they all speak different languages and I I could be completely wrong I don't think I am but none of them get along or understand one anot..."

"how does that make you feel when you you know then they put you in the front cover of Forbes yeah how does that make you feel it was a blast um I didn't do any of it to have Glory or go on a Victory l..."

"you know and she was like what you wouldn't be here if that wasn't the case what what are you talking about you're great but I get nervous right um I get nervous on stages and I'm still like you know ..."

"radical would you remove that self-doubting voice if I put a button in front of you and said you press this you'll never doubt yourself again no that's so boring I had a coach recently and he was love..."

"opportunity to gain self-awareness do you think it's additive to your performance or reductive I think it can slow me down and I can make really slow decisions because I doubt myself but beyond that I..."

"and it's seven days with no phone no Internet no books no music you're with 30 other people and you're going through this process of mapping your patterns from your childhood against your parents and ..."

"advice in that Retreat did you did you have to sort of like go upstream and figure out where that belief started is that the point of that Retreat did you figure it out did you go Upstream what a good..."

"that I'm mostly not what have you been told you are oh gosh um so nasty y'all fell apart after 10 years it was it was a quick rise and it was it was it was a it was a slow rise and it was a relatively..."

"who had built a toxic culture or just no intentional culture at our all that like warped into something that wasn't perfect but wasn't I still don't think it was the worst and now this person this con..."

"be you're someone who's as you said you've had a long history with mental health challenges what is it like in like in that 12-month period what's going on from a mental health perspective I had falle..."

"is face planting in private and in the same way that watching some random Community College Dropout from Sacramento start a business with an internet connection and a computer gave them license to you..."

"you go oh okay [ __ ] you have all of this new information about which is corrected your hypothesis so when you if we go back and think about that fundraise for example um a lot of people will hear th..."

"were no Ecom veterans or you know Performance Marketing people who had been in those jobs for even very long I was hiring Executives who had worked at like Macy's right um nobody had like econ it wasn..."

"that because everything was going so well you know we're harder to notice and you know it's hard to be a CEO it's hard to be a founder I think something a lot of people don't realize is that you only ..."

"because there's truth to almost everything didn't you get an offer to sell the company completely for 400 million dollars yeah I did I owned 80 of it so that would have made you you know quick maths I..."

"look into the data room and due diligence yeah and then copy yeah exactly yeah so we didn't get that far I don't regret it um but yeah that was a big thing you know for me that would have been a lot o..."

"you just had an idea and were asking for a check when you do raise money having a reasonable valuation is important and a lot of Founders optimize for price because bigger price an investor pays the m..."

"the money I've as an angel investor I have three of these right now and it's like Hail Mary's two of them have figured out how to survive ones like we have another term sheet I mean I've been there wh..."

"first place which day was your hardest day over the last since you were since you first started that store on eBay is there a day you look back and go do you know what that period or that day was just..."

"why I don't I just I don't want to that's not the job I want I'm an early stage founder I'm a master at creating brands that cut through the noise what happens though if one you know you're running a ..."

"throughout the year and two weekly calls with students and post in the lounge which is our community keeping it that's it no yeah I'm playing I'm I'm I'm not playing small with business class I'm play..."

"I have a 50 million dollar fund I can do that with a few people um and I'm using the assets that I have I'm the product my relationships and my network and my access to dealflow is my product my exper..."

"yeah no no I I have had the Pearl Village of knowing what's on the other side of success and that a lot of it is not what you sign up for and that when you are successful you're stuck in it so I spend..."

"like Indiana Jones where there's the vast where's this there's the vast Chasm between whatever and the Holy Grail and he has to trust that there is a an invisible bridge and he grabbed some gravel and..."

"Sophia thank you so much for your time and thank you for the inspiration you've been an inspiration for me for many many years and that's why I reached out to you to sit here with you and you are abso..."