Combining Religion, Business, and Philanthropy with Steve Sarowitz, Founder of Paylocity and Blue Marble Payroll

Steve Sarowitz is the Founder and Chairman of Paylocity, a company that he started with just three people in a 600 square feet office which has since grown into a billion-dollar company and a leading US provider of payroll and HR solutions. 

Steve also serves as CEO of Blue Marble Payroll, an international payroll provider, and the Director of Payescape, a UK payroll provider. He is also an international philanthropist who plans to give away over £1billion to charitable causes during his lifetime.

Steve and his wife have a family foundation that supports over 50 worthy causes worldwide, including programs helping orphans, foster children, refugees, and many other people in need. He has also helped produce several movies including The Gate, a ground-breaking film documentary about the Baháʼí faith which was named as the Best Religious Documentary of 2018.

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Steve Sarowitz is passionate about the things he is involved in and he was able to utilize this passion to bring his faith, business, and philanthropy together in order to create a positive spin to everything he touches. Steve found a new religion six years ago and has gone on from there to create movies about it, found and run companies based on its principles, and more. But that’s only the latter part of Steve’s incredible entrepreneurial Journey. 

He takes us back to the time he founded a Chinese restaurant and failed, and how he lost $1 million after investing in the wrong payroll product before getting it right with Paylocity. After Paylocity went public and grew into an $11 billion empire, Steve has gone on to found Blue Marble Payroll and join Wayfarer Studios—further expanding his successes and achievements in his entrepreneurial career.

Take a listen to Dr. Jeremy Weisz’s Inspired Insider Podcast episode with Steve Sarowitz, Founder and Chairman of Paylocity, about how Steve combines religion, philanthropy, and business in his career as an entrepreneur. Steve shares the story of how he founded and built Paylocity, the challenges that came with relinquishing control as CEO of the company, how he discovered and committed to the Baháʼí faith, the learning experiences he’s had throughout his career, and more.