Sara Blakely: The $5,000 Leap that Changed Women’s Fashion

Sara Blakely was selling fax machines door-to-door when she had her breakthrough idea — footless pantyhose. With no background in fashion, no investors, and only $5,000 in savings, she launched Spanx.

Everyone told her it wouldn’t work. She had no connections. No blueprint. Just a problem she wanted to solve… and the guts to believe in it.

Did You Know:

Only 2% of venture capital funding goes to women entrepreneurs (PitchBook, 2023).Yet Sara built Spanx into a billion-dollar company — without taking a dime of outside investment.

She bootstrapped, persisted, and disrupted an entire industry.

You don’t need permission. You don’t need millions. You need a breakthrough idea and the courage to pursue it.