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How I Built Resilience: Bayard Winthrop of American Giant

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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I'm Curious About Being Fired From a Manufacturing Business

i had gotten so committed about the idea of american giant that i proceeded with the business and basically funded it through credit car debt for first few months. And in that process, talked to mister kendall, the pepsicola person was mentioning earlier. He wrote me my first check, which was a twenty five thousand dollar check. It wasn't enough to pay me, but it was enough to begin to defray some of the cost. So it was, it was lean for a few years, but not so lean that i felt that i was was being totally irresponsible about it....

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