{"id":1264,"date":"2022-11-03T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williambissett.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2023-04-06T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:32:00","slug":"charlotte-angel-connection-episode-138-andrew-ashur-founder-of-lucid-drone-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williambissett.com\/2022\/11\/03\/charlotte-angel-connection-episode-138-andrew-ashur-founder-of-lucid-drone-technologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Angel Connection Episode 138: Andrew Ashur, Founder of Lucid Drone Technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/williambissett.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucid-Logo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1791\" src=\"http:\/\/williambissett.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucid-Logo-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williambissett.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucid-Logo-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/williambissett.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucid-Logo-1024x463.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/williambissett.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucid-Logo-768x348.jpg 768w, https:\/\/williambissett.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucid-Logo-1536x695.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/williambissett.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lucid-Logo.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today we welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/search\/results\/all\/?heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_profile%3AACoAAB8vsSgBpY34tRZ4PKsfE5nigm79gVRfyN4&amp;keywords=andrew%20ashur&amp;origin=RICH_QUERY_SUGGESTION&amp;position=0&amp;searchId=45e1ae84-70fa-4225-8435-5c6c524b72b0&amp;sid=gjv\">Andrew Ashur<\/a> to the podcast. Andrew is the founder and CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luciddronetech.com\/\">Lucid Drone Technologies<\/a>, a YCombinator-backed company building industrial drones for labor-intensive tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While studying Economics and Spanish at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidson.edu\/\">Davidson College<\/a>, Andrew learned mechanical, electrical, and software engineering to create Lucid Drones\u2019 first prototype. Fast forward to today and Lucid Drones is scaling rapidly to alleviate labor shortages in the service economy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We cover a wide variety of topics in this episode, like how (and why) Andrew\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Increased the company\u2019s \u201csurface area of luck\u201d by cleaning Mercedes Benz Stadium<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flew an early-stage drone into a tree minutes before an investor demo<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Powered through a chemical burn to clean a parking garage in the early days<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Found his first investor in Chicago and raised funds to fly there to pitch Lucid Drones<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fundraises continually with a relationship- and traction-driven process<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2026as well as the role NASCAR played in Andrew\u2019s decision to headquarter Lucid Drones in Charlotte, and more!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please enjoy this conversation with Andrew Ashur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">William Bissett is the owner of and an Investment Advisor Representative of Portus Wealth Advisors, a Registered Investment Adviser.\u202fRegistration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. 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