Spanx founder Sara Blakely surprised her employees with plane tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000 after a deal valued the company at $1.2 billion.
telling the employees about the sale and partnership with Blackstone," Blakely wrote."It was an emotional announcement filled with happy tears acknowledging how far we’ve come.plane tickets to anywhere in the world and $10,000 cash to spend on the trip. I really want every employee to celebrate this moment in their own way and create a memory that will last them a lifetime! Cheers to 21 years of magic and many more to come ….
Blakely, 50, started the company with $5,000 of her savings and ended up becoming a self-made billionaire. "When I first started Spanx, I wrote one goal down that this company will one day be worth $20 million," she says in the video."Everybody laughed at me." After toasting to her employees and the women who came before her, Blakely shares that she is giving them the trip of a lifetime and a nice stack of money to enjoy it.
Once they dab their tears and pick their jaws off the floor, several employees share they are headed to South Africa, Croatia, Antarctica, a honeymoon in Bora Bora and an elopement in Sweden thanks to Spanx.Scott Stump is a New Jersey-based freelancer who has been a regular contributor for TODAY.com since 2011, producing news stories and features across the trending, pop culture, sports, parents, pets, health, style, food and TMRW verticals.
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