Bayard Winthrop
16 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 22, 2021 by Bayard Winthrop · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2025 · across every show →
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Apr 22, 2021 negative
Apr 22, 2021 neutral
Apr 22, 2021 positive
Winthrop: Donald Kendall provided American Giant's first funding in $25k tranches
“And he wrote me my first check, which was a 25,000 dollar check. It wasn't enough to pay me, but it was enough to begin to defray some of the costs. And he gave me a few milestones to hit. And then I hit him. And four months later, he put in another 25 grand, …”
Apr 22, 2021 neutral
Apr 22, 2021 positive
Jul 1, 2024
Winthrop: Flannel is the hardest to manufacture among iconic American silhouettes
“There's the t-shirt, there's the sweatshirt, there's the blue jean, and there's the flannel shirt. And of those four, the flannel is the most complicated and much more complicated than I would Even give it credit for.”
Jul 1, 2024 neutral
Freebord's Inherently Dangerous and Difficult Product Severely Constrained Its Market Growth
“Getting it to any substantial size was very difficult because of the inherent constraints on a dangerous product that's hard to learn. On the other hand, the people that learned how to ride it were and are totally fanatical about it.”
Jul 1, 2024 positive
Atlas Snowshoe Ended a 40-Year Innovation Drought in the Snowshoe Industry
“There had been no innovation really at all in 30 or 40 years, and they had designed an interesting harness for your foot that gave you a mechanical advantage when you use the snowshoe itself, and they launched a company around that, and I was their, I think th…”
Jul 1, 2024
Bayard Winthrop Bought the 'American Giant' Trademark From a Novelist for $5,000
“I wrote a thriller in the kind of John Grisham vein called American Giant. It's like a legal thriller, and I've always thought that I might one day become a New York Times bestseller, and people buy t-shirts or something with the name of the novel on it, but t…”
Jul 1, 2024 negative
Jul 1, 2024 neutral
Policymakers and Retailers Bear Far More Responsibility for Domestic Manufacturing Than Consumers
“Probably policymakers number one probably retailers number two and brands number
Three, and then consumers, I think, are fourth and the least important, because I think consumers have got to act rationally, and they should.”
Jul 1, 2024 positive
Winthrop: Committing to American-made supply chains gives brands a competitive edge
“If you exist on a foundation of a commitment to a type of a supply chain like American made or a really high quality that gives you a leg up, you could stand out and do something unique and something that, that customers would really value.”
Jul 1, 2024
Winthrop: Patriotism and domestic manufacturing support are fundamentally nonpartisan
“I view those types of things as patriotic and nonpartisan in their very nature. And this idea that Let's say the conservatives have claimed a patriotism I find to be just wrong. I think that we're all, you know, most Americans are deeply patriotic and they mig…”
Jul 1, 2024 neutral
Jul 1, 2024 positive
WeWork Co-Founder Miguel McKelvey Acquired a Controlling Stake in American Giant
“And he's now our main investor. And I think it was a condition on his investment that he wanted to be able to really have a long-term view about How to build something great and be able to do the things that he felt were important. And so it was really importa…”
Jul 1, 2024 negative
Winthrop: Eradicating manufacturing jobs creates severe national class division
“Believe pretty fundamentally that if we continued to Or continue down that path. We are going to start to create, you know, a country that is really divided and people that, you know, have college degrees and can go on to be bankers and people that don't and t…”