million in business annually and she owns a white porsche. how did that transformation happen? sophia is the founder of the on-line clothing store nasty gal and the author of a new book hash tag girlboss. thanks for being here. thanks for having me. how did you go from that dropout to where you are now? well, it s been a long road. i grew up in the suburbs and i was very kind of unhappy with the public school that i was put in and decided that it was setting me up for, like, a very predictable life, which is not what i wanted. i wanted to save the world and i kind of wanted to smash capitalism, and i thought it might be possible. and at a certain point, you know, decided that i was going to smash big corporations by, i don t know, shoplifting from them, which totally didn t pan out. i learned that the hard way and decided that only sustainable hard work and without shortcuts