About
From D1 athlete to
robotics founder.
I watched window washers get thrown around by wind on a swing stage. I saw the chemical burns on workers who cleaned industrial tanks by hand. And I thought: "There has to be a better way."
I'd never built a robot. I taught myself mechanical, electrical, and software engineering from YouTube and textbooks, living above a garage with a $12 soldering iron. That naivety turned out to be an advantage. I didn't know what was supposed to be impossible.
Before all of that, I grew up in a family of teachers. Lifelong nerd, always curious about how things worked. I played D1 baseball at Davidson College, where I finished in three years with a double major in Economics and Spanish while working three part-time jobs.
That garage project became Lucid Bots, the world's largest provider of drones and robots for exterior cleaning and facade maintenance. Today we've shipped 600+ robots, raised $34M in venture funding, and built a team that's redefining how dangerous work gets done. I'm also back at Davidson as Innovator-in-Residence, helping the next generation of founders turn their own "there has to be a better way" moments into real companies.
