Mar 2, 2022
Grant Morgan is the Co-Founder & CEO of R-Zero, a biosafety tech company delivering a higher standard of human health via safer indoor spaces. The company has grown rapidly, jumping to over 100 employees since being founded in 2020.
R-Zero was founded in the early stages of the pandemic by co-founders Ben Boyer, Grant Morgan and Eli Harris after recognizing a unique opportunity to revolutionize the $20B+ infection prevention industry and help businesses increase employee and customer safety.
Prior to founding R-Zero, Grant was an engineer at Abbott, and a VP of Product & Engineering at iCracked, which was acquired by Allstate in 2019.
Show Highlights
- Fundamentally change the way people interact with the world.
- Grant shares the “dirty secret” nobody knows about entrepreneurship.
- Consequences of making buildings more energy efficient.
- The reality and need to disrupt archaic industries people don't think can be disrupted.
- The origin story and massive professional achievement of R-Zero.
- Powerful advice for your career path, becoming an entrepreneur, and making the planet healthier and safer.
- Impacts healthy buildings have on human health and productivity, and the economic and financial aspects; fundamentally changing the way we think about keeping humans safe in indoor environments.
“We have one planet, one habitat and we're doing a very good job at destroying it. We have a limited period of time to reverse what we've done. Thank you for being a part of the movement. In order to enact change and improve culture you have to be bold. You have to do something meaningful and impactful. It's going to be hard so buckle up!”
-Grant Morgan
Grant Morgan Transcript
Grant Morgan’s Show Resource and Information
- Deep Work: R
- High output management
- Amp It Up
- Sapiens
- Featured SxSW Session: Public Health - March 15
- R-Zero: Home
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