Sara Blakely founded Spanx in 2000 with $5,000 in savings after failing the LSAT twice and working as a door-to-door fax machine salesperson — and built it into a billion-dollar shapewear brand without any outside investors, becoming the world's youngest self-made female billionaire in 2012. Born in Clearwater, Florida in 1971, Blakely wrote her own patent, cold-called Neiman Marcus to get her product on shelves, and sent Oprah Winfrey a gift basket that led to Spanx becoming an Oprah Favorite Things pick. Her story — no business school, no investors, no connections, just an idea and relentless execution — is one of the most inspiring in American entrepreneurship.
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