{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Rich Razgaitis (Co-Founder & CEO of FloWater)","description":"In this episode, we talk to Rich Razgaitis (Co-Founder & CEO of FloWater) as we discuss how he started his company, what he looks for when turning around a company, and his passion to drastically reduce plastic water bottles.  **More On Rich** Rich \u201cRaz\u201d Razgaitis is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FloWater, where he leads the Denver-based company in its vision to create a new distributed and decentralized water platform. The company is on a mission to disrupt the drinking water industry by delivering the best-tasting water in the world and eliminate single-use plastic water bottles and packaging waste. FloWater has become the beverage of choice for such companies as Google, Red Bull, prAna, Oneill, Play Station, Specialized Bikes, Alaska Airlines and Xponential Fitness, as well as the Oakland school system. Since the company launched in 2013, its proprietary, new-tech water Refill Stations have saved more than 130 million plastic bottles from the environment and is on track to save over one billion plastic single-use bottles by 2022. Razgaitis originated the concept and product development of FloWater and has scaled the brand significantly since its initial distribution in only one state: Today, FloWater Refill Stations are used daily at over 5,000 hotels, schools, corporations, gyms, retailers and events in nearly 50 states. Razgaitis\u2019 role is focused around financial and business strategy, investor relations, team hiring and organizational development, product development, and strategic growth partnerships, while overseeing operational execution\u2014from manufacturing to customer service. He recently secured $15mm in Series B growth funding for FloWater. In 2019, FloWater was recognized as a \u201cTop 500\u201d company on the annual INC 5000 list of fastest-growing growing privately-held companies in America. In his career, Razgaitis has been passionate about building brands and teams. Since 2002, he has served in CEO\/president-level roles in several venture capital-backed start-ups, privately held turnaround, and growth companies, and he brings insight from those experiences to his work today at FloWater. Razgaitis was the CEO of several consumer-tech companies, including DealOn, an e-commerce company that developed the Web\u2019s first deal-commerce exchange, and another, MyTownPerks, which built the first PCI-complaint, the cloud-based loyalty program for B2B. (Both companies were subsequently acquired.) Razgaitis has deep experience in the consumer-goods industry, having led personal-care and nutrition company Univera into fast growth, with revenues doubling from $35 million to $100 million per year. With a specialty in rebuilding brands, Razgaitis also restarted a privately held consumer company, Blaine Pharmaceuticals, where he led product development and licensing of a dozen new products and drove commercialization into over 30,000 food and drug stores nationwide. He started his career in Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lily. Razgaitis grew up in the Midwest and holds a BA in marketing and an MBA in general business and marketing from Anderson University. When not working, you can find Razgaitis spending time with his two teenage daughters, where he gets to refine his \u2018dad jokes,\u2019 or studying his Enneagram, volunteering with Defy Ventures, which focuses on ending mass incarceration and recidivism or riding a motorcycle in the summer and snowboard in the winter.   Follow Rich on LinkedIn Visit our website TheStartupLifePodcast.com Follow The Startup Life Podcast Facebook Page Want gear from The Startup Life? Check out our gear! Check out other great podcasts from The Binge Podcast Network.   Written by: Dominic Lawson Executive Producers: Dominic Lawson and Kenda Lawson Music Credits: **Show Theme**  Behind Closed Doors - Otis McDonald  **Break Theme** Cielo - Huma-Huma  Sponsors\/Partners Go to Payoff.com\/TheStartupLife to learn more. Go to the Phillip Stein and use code SLEEPEZ to get 10% of your new Philip Stein Sleep Bracelet.  Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That\u2019s \u201cBETTEREVERYDAY\u201d for 30% off at ladder.sport. Go to Save the Children dot org slash save kids orwww.savethechildern.org\/savekids ","author_name":"The Startup Life","author_url":"https:\/\/www.thestartuplifepodcast.com","html":"