![]() While she’s not exactly likable, the show is still betting on viewers wanting to see her continue her upswing, which presents a problem for show-runners going forward. The Sophia of the series at one point yells out her window at dawn, “Kiss my ass, world!” (A neighbor, Lionel ( RuPaul), answers, “As spokesman for the world, no thanks.”) She is otherwise on the ascent, though, roughly where real-life Amoruso was in 2006: brash, enterprising, and on the come up. As played by Britt Robertson, this 22-year-old Sophia is first seen happily singing along to “The Wild One” before she runs out of gas on one of the city’s near-vertical hills. ![]() Times are decidedly better for the “Sophia” of the new series, which debuted last weekend. In other words: it is, as one early reviewer of the show put it, the “absolute worst time for Girlboss on Netflix.” ![]() ![]() Amoruso stepped down as Nasty Gal’s executive chairwoman after the bankruptcy, and has since pivoted to a new company, but the demise of her first remains an essential part of her story and place in the tech-culture firmament. In the year since Netflix ordered a series based on #Girlboss, Sophia Amoruso’s best-selling memoir of her life as the head of e-comm start-up Nasty Gal, Amoruso’s company filed for bankruptcy and was sold for $20 million, a fraction of its onetime $200 million valuation, to British retailer Boohoo. ![]()
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