Blakely's company, Spanx, was recently given a value of 1.2 billion dollars following a large investment to the company.
In order to celebrate this great news for the comany, Blakely decided to reward all of her staff in a truly spectacular way.
The first class plane tickets were able to be used to take the staff anywhere that they wanted. Blakely gathered all of her staff together in order to thank her staff for their work.
In the now-viral video, she said:
"To stand here today, and [think] about what we've been able to create and what we’ve been able to do by being authentic and kind and delivering amazing products to women to use their very feminine principles in a very masculine space which is business, leading with intuition, vulnerability […] this marks a moment for female entrepreneurs."
In her social media post, Blakely tearfully explains that she told people her company would one day be worth $20 million when she first started out, only for people to laugh at her.
"This is a very big moment for each and every one of you [...] and I want to toast the women that came before me and all of the women in the world who have not had this opportunity," Blakely also went on to say.
The announcement of what Blakely has done for her hard-working staff has received widespread praise, with many people taking the social media to congratulate her on valuing her staff so much.
Here's hoping the staff enjoy their holidays...I mean, you'd be hard pushed not to, right?!
h/t: The Guardian
