Lucid Drone Technologies Pivots to Help Businesses Get Back to Work Mayans ’15 Innovates to Provide Solutions Mayans (r) with co-founders.
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drian Mayans ‘15 had been a baseball player for as long as he could remember. After winning a State Championship with Westminster’s 2015 Baseball team, he continued his athletic career at Davidson College, one of the country’s top liberal arts schools. A serious back injury during his freshman year, however, ended his college career almost before it began. After nearly three years of
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wrestling with rehab and recovery, a new door opened that unknowingly set his life on an unexpected path. “The timing was such that it felt like it was a message from God to start the next phase of my life,” said Mayans. Driving down the highway, Mayans and friends saw a window washer suspended high on a building when one of them said,
“That has got to be the worst job in the world.” They understood the danger faced by these workers and knew there had to be a better way. The friends began brainstorming and developed an idea with the goal of using drone technology to disrupt the window washing/building cleaning industry. Their idea turned window washers into operators on the ground who would use drones to wash facility exteriors. This idea was how Lucid Drone Technologies began.
