Charlotte Angel Connection

  Today we welcome Andrew Ashur to the podcast. Andrew is the founder and CEO of Lucid Drone Technologies, a YCombinator-backed company building industrial drones for labor-intensive tasks. While studying Economics and Spanish at Davidson College, Andrew learned mechanical, electrical, and software engineering to create Lucid Drones’ first prototype. Fast forward to today and Lucid Drones is scaling rapidly to alleviate labor shortages in the service economy. We cover a wide variety of topics in this episode, like how (and why) Andrew… Increased the company’s “surface area of luck” by cleaning Mercedes Benz Stadium Flew an early-stage drone into a tree minutes before an investor demo Powered through a chemical burn to clean a parking garage in the early days Found his first investor in Chicago and raised funds to fly there to pitch Lucid Drones Fundraises continually with a relationship- and traction-driven process …as well as the role NASCAR played in Andrew’s decision to headquarter Lucid Dro