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American Giant
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Category: Apparel
Founder: Bayard Winthrop (majority stake purchased by Miguel McKelvey in 2022)
See also Align's profile of Winthrop.
Founded: 2011
Location: San Francisco, California, with factories in North Carolina
Representative products:Classic full-zip (aka "the greatest hoodie ever made"), Women's rib tank, Vintage flannel
It's not enough for me to sit on my porch in San Francisco and say that the solution to the country's ills is to train a bunch of people living in South Carolina how to become engineers or Google coders ... [W]e need to create good, viable, dignified work throughout the economic spectrum, throughout the skill level, throughout the educational level.
The problem is today we've reached a point where the consumer expects to get a T-shirt for four bucks from Shein. And I'm going to say, 'No. It costs $12. It's going to be a little better quality and it's going to be aligned with your values.
We don't really even think about wisdom any more. It's just credentials and degrees. And I have a deep faith in the wisdom of the average American to begin to call bulls**t on stuff like this.
Editor's note: American Giant is a sponsor of BlazeTV's "The Glenn Beck Program."