Valerie Griffith

Valerie Griffith co-founded SkinnyDipped in 2016 from her dining room table with her daughter Breezy and two best friends. The Seattle-based snack company makes better-for-you dark chocolate covered almonds.

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SkinnyDipped: Breezy and Val Griffith. The Flourishing Snack Company That Almost Failed

Breezy Griffith

SkinnyDipped

Breezy and Val Griffith turned a road-trip idea for ultrathin chocolate almonds into SkinnyDipped, a $100M brand in 25,000 stores. Their decade spanned home kitchen experiments, a converted chicken coop factory, and a make-or-break Target launch threatened by 40,000 pounds of rancid nuts. After hitting rock bottom in 2022 with negative margins and no funding, the mother-daughter team cut everything, reformulated, and clawed to profitability. Their story shows how founder-led product obsession, paired with ruthless financial discipline, can rescue a business from collapse.

Dec 29, 202584 min

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SkinnyDipped

SkinnyDipped is a better-for-you snack company that makes thin-dipped almonds and nuts with less sugar. Founded in 2015 by a mother-daughter team in Seattle, the company creates guilt-free snacks like chocolate-covered almonds and peanut butter cups.

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