Spanx's Sara Blakely Shares 5 Tips for Building a Billion-Dollar Idea
By Justin Biel, trends editor at Grow Wire ⏰ 5-minute read In short: As the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire, Spanx founder Sara Blakely shared stories from the growth of her company in a talk at NPR’s How I Built This Summit 2019. Blakely said her training as a door-to-door salesperson
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Masters of Scale: How to find your big idea, with Sara Blakely
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Sara Blakely
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How Sara Blakely Built Spanx
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