11: Sara Blakely

After failing the LSAT twice, she sold fax machines door-to-door for seven years.

Now, she’s known as the founder of Spanx, a billion-dollar company that sells undergarments, leggings, and swimwear

Here are 4 facts about Sara Blakely:

1. She's a self-made billionaire. In 2012,… pic.twitter.com/95h9gpfFRn

— Arjun Mahadevan (Mr. LLC 🇺🇸) (@ArjunMahadevan) July 11, 2023

Literally no one says this about #SB403.

What is #Hinduphobia is #SB403 advocates falsely insisting that there is no Hinduism without caste or that discrimination is innate to Hindu practice—things that have actually been said. https://t.co/0P3OfXHyiG

— Suhag A. Shukla (@SuhagAShukla) July 11, 2023

Someone asked what my big goals are, well here is a short list:

- ability to take my entire big family on a vacation every year
- afford a house by the ocean that my mom can renovate with a guest suite for her & my dad to visit
- ability to grow my career with the freedom &… https://t.co/uHPTJhjERW

— Molly O’Shea (@MollySOShea) July 11, 2023

Whether it was in Lordstown, OH or Johnstown, PA, I heard the same thing from workers: Plants shutting down. Thousands of jobs lost. Communities devastated. And our government sat by and let it happen. American workers have been wronged. We must revitalize American industry with… pic.twitter.com/mgNML4yAxJ

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) July 11, 2023

Your phone has more computing power than the entire Apollo moon program combined!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2023

The world is starving for IRL communities

— Roya (@pakzadroya) July 10, 2023

Be relentless.

There will be drama, uncertainty, and failure.

But I learned that when I just stick to my guns daily the repeated effort makes results inevitable.

A river cuts through a rock not by its power but by its consistency.

— Takezo - Sword Of Clarity (@takezopure) July 11, 2023

Beast, best, or best beast?! 😂 https://t.co/WmYdjqq4rT

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) July 11, 2023

I keep a sticky note on my computer with my mission, values, principles, and ideal character traits.

I've been iterating this list for the last few years. Always a work in progress.

And having it as the first thing I see every morning helps me keep it top of mind. pic.twitter.com/LBm7bXbtjk

— Dickie Bush 🚢 (@dickiebush) July 11, 2023

One of the best things I've ever done is hire my Dad.

Getting to pay him for all the years he paid for me is incredible.

Now we build together. Everyone says don't do business with family, I think it's an honor to get to. pic.twitter.com/VooFPu9daD

— Codie Sanchez (@Codie_Sanchez) July 10, 2023

People don't care about your effort. They care about the result. Your work is done when it looks so simple that other people think they could've done it, which means they won't appreciate how hard you worked.

— David Perell (@david_perell) July 11, 2023

Better to be passionate about following Jesus and be mocked by the world than to be lukewarm about following Jesus and be accepted by the world.

— Trevor Sheatz (@TrevorSheatz) July 11, 2023

Hijack with Idris Elba on Apple TV is excellent.

— Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth (@sriramk) July 11, 2023

I bought a business for $850,000 in February.

Here's the breakdown:

Business: Contentellect (Content writing service for SaaS co's)
Customers: 875+ businesses & 65+ agencies
Talent Pool: 100+ writers
2022 EBITDA: $340,000
Founded: 2018

Ask me anything about the acquisition 👇

— Dom Wells (@DomWellsOnfolio) July 11, 2023

A mortgage payment doesn't go up for 30 years.

My parents still pay $420 a mo on a 200 acre farm + house they bought in 1998.

Rent goes up 5%+ per year. Compound that over 30 years and its 4.5x higher.

People who argue that renting is better are simply wrong.

— Nick Huber (@sweatystartup) July 11, 2023

If I ignored your first 6 emails, your 7th probably isn’t gonna push me over the edge.

— Connor Beem (@connor_beem) July 10, 2023

Run the thought experiment: you’re stranded on an island with no hope of rescue. You can have a pallet of food or a billion dollars. The latter has no value, because there are no resources to allocate.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2023

So if I asked you about startup acquisitions, you'd probably give me a rundown of every deal ever made. You know the numbers, the valuations, the market trends, the whole deal, right?

You’re a tough entrepreneur. If I asked you about deals falling through, and you’d probably… pic.twitter.com/iGw8KtK0ft

— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) July 11, 2023

How has Twitter changed since Elon Musk took over?

1) Goodbye Text, Hello Images: Witty, one-sentence bangers are less common than they once were, and almost everything in my Twitter feed is a photo or video now.

2) Pay to play: If you don’t pay $8/month, people won’t see your…

— David Perell (@david_perell) July 1, 2023

Let’s do a deep dive shall we pic.twitter.com/Sor2U8kUzz

— Varia Bortsova 💙💛 (@variainayurt) July 11, 2023

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