Spanx founder Sara Blakely reveals her secret for coming up with
Sara Blakely went from selling fax machines
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Spanx Founder Sara Blakely Says This Business Idea Validation Step
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Spanx Founder Sara Blakely Has 99 Pages of Business Ideas
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What the Spanx billionaire packs for a flight
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Spanx founder rewards employees with first-class plane tickets and
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Sara Blakely
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Masters of Scale: How to find your big idea, with Sara Blakely
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Rent the Runway
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Spanx founder Sara Blakely thanks the Kardashians for helping
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