Start small, think big, scale quickly | SPANX founder Sara Blakely on how to bootstrap a billion dollar business
The Tony Robbins Channel
Tony Robbins
4.3 • 6.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Sara Blakely founded SPANX with just $5,000 of personal savings and has grown it to a company that revolutionized an industry. She was selected as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the world, and at age 41, was the youngest woman to join FORBES' World's Billionaires list.
In this exclusive interview from #BusinessMastery, Sara shares with Tony the strategies she implemented that helped her bootstrap her billion-dollar business.
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| 0:38.2 | Women's History Month is the time where we celebrate the tremendous contributions that |
| 0:42.0 | women all over the world have made. |
| 0:44.2 | And in today's episode, we're bringing you an interview with one woman who has changed |
| 0:48.2 | history. |
| 0:49.7 | Her name is Sarah Blakely, and Tony had the pleasure of speaking with her at his recent |
| 0:53.1 | business mastery event in Palm Beach. |
| 0:55.5 | She's the founder of Shapewear Company Spanks, and in 2012, at just 41 years old, she became |
| 1:01.1 | the first female in the world to become a billionaire on her own without the help of |
| 1:05.5 | an inheritance or a spouse. |
| 1:07.8 | You've probably heard a lot about Sarah's story because it's an incredible story. |
| 1:11.9 | She went from failing the LSAT to being a greeter at Disney World to selling fax machines |
| 1:16.9 | door to door to turning $5,000 of her own savings into a billion dollar empire. |
| 1:22.8 | But what you may not have heard before is everything in between. |
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