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Imagine a classic picture of apparent hopelessness: exhausting Florida heat, a heavy business suit, and an endless line of doors being closed before a young saleswoman could finish her pitch. For seven years, Sara Blakely sold fax machines door to door. Before that, she had twice failed the LSAT, the law-school admission test in the United States, and had even failed to secure a role as Goofy at Walt Disney World because she was not tall enough for the costume.
At first glance, this looked like the ordinary biography of a person moving from one disappointment to another. Yet two decades later, Forbes would place that same woman on its cover and describe her as the youngest self-made female billionaire. By the age of 41, the company she had created — Spanx — had become a billion-dollar business. It had been built without external venture capital, without an elite business-school background, and without family connections inside the closed world of fashion and retail.



