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The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn’t fashion - it was a stolen book. She spent her teens hitchhiking, committing petty theft, and dumpster diving. By twenty-two, she had resigned herself to employment, but was still broke, directionless, and working a mediocre day job she’d taken for the health insurance. It was there that Sophia decided to start selling vintage clothes on eBay. Eight years later, she is the founder, CEO, and creative director of Nasty Gal, a $100 million plus online fashion retailer with more than 350 employees.

Restez vous-même, devenez motivé, réalisez vos rêves ! Dans le best-seller du New York Times, Sophia Amoruso raconte comment elle a passé du déchétarisme, à la fondation d'un des entreprises les plus dynamiques du monde. Adolescente, Amoruso voyageait en auto-stop, commettait des petits vols et lors des temps les plus difficiles fouillait dans des poubelles pour les restes de bagels. À 20 ans elle a quitté l'université et changé des centaines d'emplois. Son dernier poste de travail était de contrôler les identités à l'entrée de l'école d'art.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of #Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso, read by Sarah Jes Austell. The first thing Sophia Amoruso sold online wasn't fashion. It was a stolen book. At age 17 she was a dumpster-diving, shoplifting anarchist. By 29 she was the founder and CEO of Nasty Gal, a $100 million-plus fashion empire. Filled with brazen wake-up calls ("You are not a special snowflake"), frank observations ("Failure is your invention"), and behind-the-scenes stories....

This is a summary, analysis, and review of New York Times best-selling book #GIRLBOSS by founder and CEO of the hit clothing brand Nasty Gal. Sophia Amoruso is an unconventional success story who will show you how you too can find the success she found, and that luck isn't what gets you to the top.

In #GirlBoss, Sophia Amoruso, a well-known American fashionista, shares her wisdom and inspiration with women who are also seeking success. While less conventional than other female business moguls, Amoruso stands on her own after rising from her days of dumpster-diving to eBay saleswoman to CEO of her own worldwide company. Her business, Nasty Girl, started as a self-funded enterprise in her aunt's basement. In a few years, she was reporting revenues more than $10 million!

På omkring otte år gik Sophia Amoruso fra at være ludfattig anarkistisk friganer til en velhavende forretningskvinde. I "Girlboss" fortæller hun sin historie for at lære andre, kommende girlboss'er at stille spørgsmål og ikke tage noget for givet. En girlboss skal vide, hvornår man skal følge reglerne, og hvornår man skal omskrive dem. En girlboss styrer sit eget liv. Hun får, hvad hun vil have, fordi hun arbejder hårdt for det. "Girlboss" er Sophia Amorusos historie.