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Brook Avenue Press was a real company, and she really did start it. What I find most interesting is that she sounded like a capitalist back then when she was calling for tax breaks for new startups:

Daily Caller article on AOC's prior life as an entrepreneur

Here's my guess at what happened to derail her career path:

1. She graduated from Boston University with a degree that wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

2. She really believed the nonsense they taught about changing the world and doing whatever she wanted to do.

3. So she started her own company (nothing wrong with that at all) and went around acting and sounding like a successful person in business -- even to the point where she was invited back to BU to give presentations on entrepreneurship.

4. It turns out she didn't have a clue about running a business, and some of the quotes here illustrate a comical naiveté that borders on delusion:

- "You see a huge return on your investment here. People pay $500 an hour for consulting that we get for free by the water cooler." ... Yes, that water cooler bullsh!t was worth exactly what she paid for it.

- "Don’t try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken." ... She obviously couldn't run her own business on clichés, but that didn't stop her from pretending she knew what the hell she was talking about.

5. After a few years of this she found herself with a failed business, a mountain of college debt, and a worthless college degree. She needed to put away her delusions and find a real job.

This is how this "entrepreneur" with a degree from Boston University ended up working as a bartender at the age of 28.