Spanx founder awards employees with $10,000, 2 plane tickets

Spanx employees were treated to a astonishment by its CEO and laminitis aft the institution signed a $1 cardinal woody with an concern company.

After the shapewear institution scored a woody with Blackstone, Sara Blakely awarded her employees with $10,000 and 2 first-class Delta Airline tickets to anyplace successful the world.

Blakely posted a video of the astonishment to her Facebook connected Tuesday.

"I truly privation each worker to observe this infinitesimal successful their ain mode and make a representation that volition past them a lifetime!" Blakely said.

According to a property release, Spanx is worthy $1.2 cardinal aft Blackston bought a bulk involvement successful the brand.

In 2000, Blakely founded Spanx by taking $5,000 retired of her savings, utilizing nary extracurricular investments, wrote her ain patent, and invented the archetypal SPANX undergarment successful her apartment.