Micah Green
Micah Green
Micah Estis Green is an entrepreneur. He is the Founder, President, and CEO of Maidbot, a robotics company that created the first housekeeping robots for hotels.
Early Life & Education
Green grew up in Potomac, Maryland. He graduated from Winston Churchill High School in 2014.
Green subsequently attended Cornell University to study entrpreneurship. However, he dropped out in his sophomore year to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors.
Career
Maidbot
Green giving a presentation at HFTP's second Entrepreneur 20X pitch competition at HITEC 2016 (June 20, 2016)
In July 2015, Micah Green founded Maidbot, a hardware company that creates automated hotel cleaning robots.
Aimed to revolutionize the hospitality industry, he founded the company while in his college dorm room.
After speaking with several experts in the hospitality industry, he realized there were common issues across most hotels.
He realized three main issues:
Housekeeping is the highest variable cost.
While wages and costs increase, revenue continues to stay steady.
Secondly, room attendants have the highest rate of injury in the entire service sector.
There is an inconsistency of cleaning.
While cleanliness is considered one of the most important factors in hotel experience, most hotels do not live up to people's standards.
Inspired by The Jetsons , Green created his first robot, 'Rosie.' It is designed to cut time cleaning floors, decrease worker injury, and collect data. Green's vision is to create a suite of mechanical helpers in the hospitality industry.
Lecturer
In 2017, Green guest lectured at his alma mater, Cornell University. He gave presentations for an Executive MBA course entitled 'Entrepreneurship of Physical Products' as well a 'Technological Change at Work' class.
Awards & Accomplishments
In July 2017, Green became a Thiel Fellow. The fellowship provides young entrepreneurs with a $100,000 grant along with mentorship and networking opportunities.
Later that year, it was announced that Micah Green was on Forbes' 30 Under 30 for 2018. He appeared on the 'Enterprise Technology' and 'Youngest' lists, respectively.
Personal Life
Micah has a brother named Nathaniel.
Better known as Nat Green, he was a Senior Global Solution Engineer at Duetto, a company that uses big data to help hotels optimize demand and profit.
He now owns his own hospitality company called 518.