Spanx founder Sara Blakely surprised her employees with two first-class plane tickets and $ 10,000 each.
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The CEO and founder of the shapewear company Spanx surprised her employees with two first-class airfare and $ 10,000 each to celebrate the closing of a company agreement with Blackstone. worth US $ 1,200 million.
Spanx founder Sara Blakely surprised her employees with the news, she revealed Friday in a post on her verified Instagram account.
In the video, Blakely spun a globe, before revealing that she had bought each of her employees two first-class airline tickets to anywhere in the world.
He added: "If you go on a trip you may want to go to a very nice dinner, you may want to go to a very nice hotel, and that's why with the two first-class tickets of each one to any part of the world, each one will receive $ 10,000. "
The video includes the emotions and surprise reactions of the employees.
Spanx founder Sara Blakely surprised her employees with two first-class plane tickets and $ 10,000 each.
"I want each employee to celebrate this moment in their own way and create a memory that will last a lifetime! Cheers for 21 years of magic and many more to come," she wrote on Instagram.
Blakely also noted that while 50% of entrepreneurs are women, only 2.3% of venture capital funding goes to women.
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In her toast, she paid tribute to "the women who preceded me, and to all the women in the world who have not had this opportunity."
Blakely said that when he founded Spanx in 2000, he did so with $ 5,000 in savings.
Last week, private equity firm Blackstone said it would take a majority stake in the brand.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but the firms noted the eight-figure valuation in a press release.
Shaping underwear is often used as an undergarment that smoothes, thins or modifies the body shape.
According to Allied Market Research, the global shaping garment market is expected to reach $ 7 billion by 2030.
- Rob McLean and Jill Disis contributed to this report.
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