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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Spanx comes up
Advice Line with Daymond John of FUBU
- ▶ 5:40 Daymond John But as I looked at your, the history of who you have from like Spanx to Barbara Corcoran to Jose Andreas.
Nuts.com: Jeff Braverman. From Corner Store to Snacktime Powerhouse
Faherty Brand: Alex and Mike Faherty. How Jersey Shore + Manhattan Chic grew to 80 stores.
Advice Line with Justin McLeod of Hinge
Advice Line with Jane Wurwand of Dermalogica
- ▶ 48:26 Jane Wurwand Spanx. 2 times in the scene
Athletic Brewing Company: Bill Shufelt
Advice Line with Lara Merriken of LÄRABAR
Graduate Hotels: Ben Weprin
Advice Line with Maureen Kelly of Tarte Cosmetics
Parachute Home: Ariel Kaye
Wondery: Hernan Lopez
- ▶ 28:54 unnamed speaker I'm from Cleveland, Ohio, and my favorite episode was with Sarah Blakely from Spanx, and she had talked about how when she brought her idea for footless pantyhose to the manufacturer, they thought that she was crazy and that nobody would…
Bombas: David Heath and Randy Goldberg
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
Live From The HIBT Summit: Adam Grant
- ▶ 46:11 Adam Grant How did you know to go for it with Spanx when you'd never been an entrepreneur, you didn't know anything about retail or fashion, or even really much about business by her own description?
How I Built Resilience (Special Edition): Guy Raz
S'well: Sarah Kauss
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson (2018)
- ▶ 43:02 Chip Wilson What was, you know, you've done that, um, uh, interview with, um, Blakely on Spanx.
Live From The HIBT Summit: Sara Blakely Of Spanx
- ▶ 0:44 Guy Raz And today's episode is with Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31 Guy Raz Um, and began to design what would become eventually Spanx, and, and on the podcast you said something to me that I've, I've never forgotten, and I'm gonna quote here, you said, ideas are at their most vulnerable when they're brand new. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:15 Sara Blakely And that helped me so much with Spanx because for the first two years I was working on Spanx at night and on the weekends while I was still selling fax machines by day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:23 Guy Raz If Spanx had not gotten any traction in the first few years, do you think you would have persisted and kept going? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:46 Sara Blakely That's the reason that I'm sitting here, but when I first started Spanx, it was about three months after I started it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:11 Guy Raz That's Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx.
Outdoor Voices: Tyler Haney
The Knot: Carley Roney & David Liu (2018)
Serial Entrepreneur: Marcia Kilgore (2018)
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian
Dave's Killer Bread: Dave Dahl
Stacy's Pita Chips: Stacy Madison
Zappos: Tony Hsieh (2017)
Lululemon Athletica: Chip Wilson
- ▶ 42:05 Chip Wilson And what was, you know, you've done that, um, uh, interview with, um, Blakely on Spanx.
Panera Bread/Au Bon Pain: Ron Shaich
Live Episode! Starbucks: Howard Schultz
Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid
Rent The Runway: Jenn Hyman
Spanx: Sara Blakely (2017)
- ▶ 0:17 Guy Raz This is the first episode we ever did with Sarah Blakely of Spanx, and if you've already heard it, give it a second listen.
- ▶ 1:18 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, the story of how Sarah Blakely designed a new kind of underwear, called it Spanx, and eventually became the youngest female billionaire in America.
- ▶ 3:38 Guy Raz And, and I guess I should say for people who have never worn Spanx, um, it's just like, this is an undergarment made out of an elastic material that basically tightens and, and, and smooths everything around your, your butt and thighs.
- ▶ 4:06 Sara Blakely Um, I had set aside 5000 dollars in savings from selling fax machines door to door, and that's what I started Spanx with.
- ▶ 13:10 Guy Raz Coming up, how Sarah got Spanx into the department stores and into the closets of many women you may know.
- ▶ 14:38 Sara Blakely And almost as soon as I narrowed my thinking down that way, the word Spanx came to me while I was in my car. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:46 Sara Blakely And she walked down the hall with me and I went in the stall and I had on my cream pants that were the reason I invented this without Spanx on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:05 Sara Blakely I called every friend I had in all the seven cities that Neiman's sent the Spanx to. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:51 Sara Blakely Spanx is 15 years old, and we've never done any formal ad campaign or anything, and so it's a very word of mouth brand. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:24 Guy Raz And, and sales must have been, must have, like, kept going up, because I read that, like, by the end of your second year, you, you made, like, the company made, like, ten million dollars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Guy Raz That's Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx. 2 times in the scene
1-800-GOT-JUNK?: Brian Scudamore
Spanx: Sara Blakely
- ▶ 0:43 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, the story of how Sarah Blakely designed a new kind of underwear, called it Spanx, and eventually became the youngest female billionaire in America.
- ▶ 3:03 Guy Raz And, and I guess I should say for people who have never worn Spanx, um, it's just like this is an undergarment made out of an elastic material that basically tightens and, and, and smooths everything around your, your butt and thighs. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:31 Sara Blakely Um, I had set aside 5000 dollars in savings from selling fax machines door to door, and that's what I started Spanx with, and so the first thing I did was started to, um, research if the idea existed, and I went to the Georgia Tech Library…
- ▶ 12:34 Guy Raz Coming up, how Sarah got Spanx into the department stores and into the closets of many women you may know.
- ▶ 14:02 Sara Blakely And almost as soon as I narrowed my thinking down that way, the word Spanx came to me while I was in my car. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:10 Sara Blakely And she walked down the hall with me and I went in the stall and I had on my cream pants that were the reason I invented this without Spanx on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Sara Blakely The Spanx II, and called friends that I hadn't even spoken to since fourth grade, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:15 Sara Blakely Spanx is 15 years old, and we've never done any formal ad campaign or anything, and so it's a very word of mouth brand. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:48 Guy Raz And, and sales must have been, must have, like, kept going up because I read that, like, by the end of your second year, you, you made, like, the company made, like, ten million dollars. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 Guy Raz That's Sarah Blakely, founder of Spanx. 2 times in the scene