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‘No one was coming to save me’: How Reese Witherspoon built a $900 million company from a problem Hollywood wouldn’t fix

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“What, like it’s hard?”

While it’s an iconic line from her career-making film Legally Blonde, it’s also a mantra Reese Witherspoon lives by. The actress turned media company owner has long had the grit required to ideate, found, and sell a near-billion-dollar company that flipped Hollywood’s script on its head. (And this week, she bought it back.)

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