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...Creator Sara Blakely was hailed as the youngest female self-made billionaire in 2012. Blakely’s experience as a stand-up comedian helped her to market the brand as friendly and unintimidating....
...“Spanx started way before I cut the feet off of my pantyhose,” says the undergarment creator Sara Blakely, who visualised her future brand – recently valued at $1.2bn – while selling fax machines door-to-door...
...I think it's Sara Blakely who said that. Didn't she? Maybe they're too little. And just if, to me, it comes back to that point. Make you non-negotiable. Make yourself a non-negotiable....
...While there are hugely successful female founders with billion dollar companies, such as Katrina Lake, founder of Stitch Fix, or Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, often they are from the fashion industry,...
...Presented by Guy Raz, the war correspondent turned NPR news host, the first show features Sara Blakely whose lightbulb moment came when she noticed the outline of her underwear showing through a pair of...
...Sara Blakely, the first female signatory of the Giving Pledge created by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, has promised to direct her fortune to fund and promote female entrepreneurs — and to change the balance...
...Spanx founder Sara Blakely tells Stephen Foley of her ambition to help female entrepreneurs and bring “male and female energy” into balance...
...Women such as Sara Blakely, whose Spanx shapewear business has made her a billionaire, have been able to bootstrap their businesses with little venture capital involvement....
...(The Atlantic) Video of the day Giving women a leg up Spanx founder Sara Blakely tells Stephen Foley of her ambition to help female entrepreneurs and bring “male and female energy” into balance. (FT)...
...Few of the “Occupy” protesters were focusing on Steve Jobs or the self-made billionaire Sara Blakely, founder and CEO of Spanx....
...Sara Blakely launched her Spanx underwear business, with its “Don’t worry, we’ve got your butt covered” slogan, having been rejected as totally misguided by everyone in the industry....
...Blakely of Spanx....
...At the recent Time 100 Gala, attendees such as Christina Aguilera (32), TV producer Lisa Oz (49) and Spanx founder Sara Blakely (42) all dared to bare their midsections....
...Sara Blakely, the billionaire founder of Spanx, failed law school exams twice....
...And while individual entrepreneurs such as James Dyson of vacuum cleaner fame, Sara Blakely of Spanx or Mark Pincus of Zynga can build highly profitable and original undertakings, their innovations do not...
...Blakely cut her tights off at the ankle so that they would have a clean line under trousers)....
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