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Sara Blakely: The Self-Made Billionaire Who Started With $5

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Sara BlakelyLATEST Business · 6 April 2026 Sara Blakely The Self-Made Billionaire Who Started With $5,000 and Changed Fashion In the history of American entrepreneurship, few stories are as viscerally inspiring as Sara Blakely’s. Armed with just $5,000 in personal savings, no business background, no investor, and no industry connections, she invented a product in… Read the story