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Galyn Bernard

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Primary · 1 appearance on the record.

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In 2015, Galyn Bernard co-founded Primary, a direct-to-consumer children's clothing brand. Prior to starting Primary, she led marketing and brand management at Kraft Foods, Cole Haan, and Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com.

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Insight
Specializing in basic apparel drives better customer loyalty than trend-chasing
“By focusing on it, we could actually do it really well in a way that was sort of profitable, and, you know, a solid business, and the basis of an amazing customer relationship, where, yes, a bunch of other companies could and do sell and A basic white t-shirt …”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 31:49 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Assertion Not checkable as stated
A Series A investor reneged on Primary due to portfolio conflict
“And so we jumped on the phone and yeah, the message was, you know, I'm so sorry, but I have another company in my portfolio that is sort of pivoting into the same space and I can't make this investment now.”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 44:12 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Insight
Primary resolves co-CEO disagreements by deferring to the more passionate founder
“In an instance where we don't totally agree, we're both very happy to sort of let the other person, whoever feels strongly, be the decider.”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 57:59 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Disclosure
Primary secured a $2.5 million seed round after fifty pitches
“We had probably more than 50 meetings ended up with two sort of lead venture investors, as well as, like, a bunch of friends and family who, you know, were sort of excited about the idea and wanted to be supportive. So, yeah, we raised two and a half million i…”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 35:06 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Insight
Primary requires new evergreen clothing products to have five-year lifespans
“So when we started, you know, sort of our concept of evergreen was that if we were going to launch something, we needed to believe that we could sell it for at least five years.”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 54:08 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Disclosure
Primary plans to partner with larger retailers for international physical expansion
“The idea of having a partner at some point in the future who Maybe has some deeper pockets than we do, and who also has had experience in additional distribution channels or physical retail or international or, you know, sort of other growth areas that Christi…”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 1:07:27 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Disclosure
Primary initially targeted a $750,000 seed round to finance inventory
“Our target was 750,000 dollars to basically get us to the point where we were ready to launch, so our first inventory buy, obviously some product development along the way, and then mostly otherwise it was people who could help us build a website, could help u…”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 27:50 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Disclosure
Primary launched with thirty-five apparel styles across twenty color options
“So when we launched, I think we had 35 styles in total, and most of them came in over 20 colors”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 37:10 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Primary's seed investors supplied bridge funding after a blown Series A
“But I think to the credit of our existing investors from our previous round, they were able to sort of bridge us into the spring so that we could sort of go back out and raise a proper Series A.”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 44:43 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard
Disclosure
Primary centers its manufacturing in Vietnam and India over China
“But for now, I think we're sort of firmly in in Vietnam and India with still a little bit of production in China.”
Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 1:05:33 Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Primary: Christina Carbonell and Galyn Bernard Jan 15, 2024 27m
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