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Spanx chief gives all employees first-class plane tickets and $10,000
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The chief executive and founder of the shapewear company Spanx has surprised employees with two first-class plane tickets and $10,000 each.
Speaking at a party last Thursday to mark the company’s new $1.2bn valuation, after the investment giant Blackstone purchased a majority stake, Sara Blakely expressed her gratitude for 21 years of success.
In remarks posted to social media, Blakely said: “To stand here today, and [to] think about what we’ve been able to create and what we’ve been able to do by being authentic and kind and delivering amazing products to women to use their very feminine principles in a very masculine space which is business, leading with intuition, vulnerability … this marks a moment for female entrepreneurs.”
When Blakely
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