The portal added that when Blakely started Spanx in 2000 with just US$5,000 in savings, she pledged that her company would one day be worth US$20 million .
Before revealing that she had bought each of her employees two first-class plane tickets to anywhere in the world, Blakely had given the globe a spin. “If you go on a trip, you might want to go out to a really nice dinner, you might want to go out to a really nice hotel, and so... you are each getting US$10,000,” she added.
She went on to say that even though 50 per cent of entrepreneurs are women, she said, only 2.3 per cent of venture capital funding went to women in 2020. “This is a very big moment for each and every one of you,” Blakely said, “and I want to toast the women that came before me and all of the women in the world who have not had this opportunity.”
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