Spanx, every mention

Spanx: Sara Blakely Sep 12, 2016 · 23 mentions

• ▶ 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