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Breezy and Val Griffith launched SkinnyDipped with $25,000 in life savings

Val Griffith · SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed · Dec 29, 2025 · at 33:14

Val Griffith, co-founder of snack brand SkinnyDipped, describes the initial capital she and daughter Breezy Griffith had when starting the company in Seattle around 2013.

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“We were working with a stash of about, you know, I think it was our pretty much our life savings of about 25,000.”

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