#Girlboss

Before she founded Nasty Gal, Sophia Amoruso passed her teenage years hitchhiking, committing petty theft and digging through dumpsters for leftover bagels. At twenty-two she was a broke dropout checking IDs in an art school lobby, a job she took for the health insurance. From that post she began to sell vintage clothing on eBay. Amoruso writes for outsiders and insiders alike, arguing that success depends less on college or popularity than on trusting one's instincts and knowing which rules to keep and which to break. Her autobiography popularized the term girlboss and was adapted into a television series of the same name.

MailBird chief executive Andrea Loubier paired it with The 10% Entrepreneur as books that help people plan and take the risks entrepreneurship requires. Prospect.io chief executive Vincenzo Ruggiero named it among the books he recommends to young people interested in his career path.