How Flux Chargers got traction

Alejandro Rioja, Flux Chargers, eCommerce, International Founders, Physical Product, PR / Media Marketing

When I work remotely I don’t like bringing my laptop; I prefer to work on my phone. But my biggest problem with using my phone is that it would kill my battery so fast. I was constantly upgrading to the latest phone and I STILL couldn’t do more than 4-5 hours of work with it.

Well, last year I started doing research into batteries. I needed one I could take with me that would allow me to work 10 hours without the bulk of a laptop.

I finally came across a product called Flux Charger and today I have the founder of the company that creates it. Today’s guest is Alejandro Rioja, the founder of Flux, which creates a portable charger.

Alejandro Rioja

Flux Chargers

Alejandro Rioja is the founder of Flux, which creates Flux Charger, a portable charger.

Andrew: Hey, everyone. You know me. I’m Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses.

For a large part of last year, instead of coming here to the office, which is a really nice office right in the heart of San Francisco, but of instead of coming here, I decided I wanted to go work outdoors, beautiful spots. Frankly, San Francisco doesn’t really have it, but if I go a little bit north, if I go a little bit south, then I end up in—well, north is Napa or Sonoma. If I go a little bit south, I end up at these beautiful places that are basically what you’d consider Silicon Valley. I take my phone with me.

For the most part, I use my phone instead of my laptop. I thought, “I think maybe all I want is a phone.” The only problem I have with using my phone for work, I discovered, was that the battery would just go down. It would really let me down. I would constantly...

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