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How Sara Blakely Built Spanx with $5,000, No Experience, and a Pair of Scissors

She spent seven years selling fax machines, wrote her own patent, cold-called her way into Neiman Marcus, and built a billion-dollar company with zero outside funding.

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· March 2026 · 10 min read

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