Micah Green

His mother, Cindy Estis Green, is the founder and chief executive of Kalibri Labs, a hospitality analytics company. A LODGING profile of November 2016 writes that he has been in the lodging industry his whole life and that, as he puts it, his mother “brainwashed” him into hospitality at an early age. WRVO likewise wrote in January 2016 that his mother works in the hospitality industry and that he decided to follow suit.⁠[1][2]

In a 2024 podcast interview he said that he has been building robots in one form or another since he was five years old, and that what drew him to the field was the view of the director of a robotics program he took part in: the 1970s and 1980s belonged to personal computing, the 1990s to the internet, and the time after that to robotics. In The Observer, the school newspaper of Winston Churchill High School, he said that he loved the television show “The Jetsons” growing up, saw its cleaning robot Rosie as something that should be around, and wanted to bring it into reality.⁠[3][4][5]

In a talk at Cornell in March 2018 he said that he started out as an entrepreneur at age seven, building “little companies” and selling items from his basement to neighbors. In the 2024 podcast he said that his early ventures also included local video editing services, and he called a mobile racing game his first more established business launched on the App Store.⁠[6][3]

He is an alumnus of Winston Churchill High School. A 2019 alumni profile by QØ (Quarter Zero) writes that in high school he designed an app called “Shark Puncher,” which he later abandoned; he was not accepted as a QØ Founder with that idea, so he joined as a Free Agent and, in QØ’s Catapult Incubator, became part of the School Scoop team, which built technology to keep students informed about school news and licensed its software to school districts across the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States is a federal country in North America made up of 50 states, the District of Columbia as the seat of government, and territories such as Puerto Rico and Guam; its capital is Washington, D.C. The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted a resident population of 331,449,281, and the 435 seats of the House of Representatives are apportioned among the states on the basis of the census.Open the full entry. In the profile he credits QØ’s advisors, mentors and case-study work with building his skills and confidence, calls QØ’s chief executive “part of the family,” and says: “After QØ, entrepreneurship became something more than a hobby, I knew it was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.”⁠[4][5][7]

His biography on the YPO website states that over the past decade he has been a serial entrepreneur who has started multiple businesses, including two successful smartphone applications.⁠[8]

After high school he enrolled at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration, studying for a bachelor’s degree in hospitality administration with a concentration in entrepreneurship. The Cornell Daily Sun lists him in its 2016 and 2018 articles as a member of the class of 2018.⁠[1][9][10][11]

During a hotel operations class he worked for a short time as a room attendant at The Statler Hotel on campus. He described to WRVO the constant repetition of the job: vacuuming, reaching out to wipe mirrors, lifting a king-sized mattress to stuff sheets under it. In The Observer he said that when he was working as a housekeeper, “I was blown away by how traditional everything was—the issues around cost, injuries, inconsistencies”. In January 2018 he said: “Working in the Statler was the key step that opened my eyes to issues in hospitality and housekeeping.”⁠[2][10][4][11][12]

QØ’s profile writes that he carried a notepad to interview staff, timed room-cleaning tasks with a stopwatch and researched costs, finding that housekeeping had high variable costs, inconsistencies and high injury rates, and that consumer robot vacuums such as the Roomba were not built for industrial use and their power sources failed after a few weeks. Hospitality Technology and LODGING write that he noticed housekeeping is a hotel’s highest variable cost and that room attendants have the highest injury rate. PhocusWire writes that he realized the room attendant’s job had changed little since the vacuum was invented at the dawn of the 20th century. In WRVO’s piece he said: “Robotics in general focuses on dull, dirty or dangerous tasks. Housekeeping encompasses all of those.” The WRVO and LODGING articles both mention a 2012 UCLA report finding that maids and housekeepers have one of the highest injury rates in the hotel industry and the private sector.⁠[7][13][14][15][2][16]

He said in January 2018 that he came up with the idea for Maidbot while sitting in Mews 323B; The Observer writes that he conceived of it in February 2015. LODGING relayed his words in November 2016 that just over a year earlier Maidbot had been “an idea scribbled on a napkin.” In the 2024 podcast he said that early customer discovery pointed to a robot that could make beds, which was too big a project at the time, and that the company later turned to commercial floor care; The Cornell Daily Sun wrote in January 2016 that he hoped Maidbot would eventually make beds as well as clean floors.⁠[11][4][1][3][10]

The Cornell Daily Sun wrote in 2018 that Maidbot’s “first day” was at Cornell’s 2015 Career Fair, where it set out to “recruit talent with nothing but a logo, banner, and idea.”⁠[6]

In the summer of 2015 Maidbot took part in the STSA Hardware Accelerator, hosted in the Prototyping Lab of Rev, a startup space in Ithaca; Rev writes that the team of Cornell students started with his ideas and created a working proof of concept. The Cornell Daily Sun writes that Maidbot received support that summer from Life Changing Lab’s summer incubator program. Tailos’s website states that the company graduated from the REV Ithaca and Cornell Life Changing Labs Summer Accelerator programs in 2015.⁠[9][10][12]

The Observer writes that he began designing the product in September 2015 and built relationships with potential investors between February and September.⁠[4]

After the summer program, Rev announced Maidbot as its newest member, describing the company as a robotics hospitality company poised to create the world’s first robot floor cleaner for hotels and other commercial industries, with him as chief executive and founder; Rev gave the company access to entrepreneurship mentors, workspace and the tools of its Prototyping Lab as an interim arrangement until it had its own space. The team members who stayed on after the summer program were Jason Guss, who was working towards a PhD in biomedical engineering, Reuben Rappaport, an undergraduate in the College of Engineering, and Gabriel Gonzalez, an undergraduate in mechanical and aerospace engineering; later additions were David Moroniti as chief technology officer, Alex Levy as vice president of business operations, Steven Whitehead as lead systems integrator and Praveen Palanisamy as control systems design engineer. Rev wrote that hotels were ready to partner and beta test.⁠[9]

PhocusWire writes that David Moroniti previously taught autonomous systems at Georgia Tech.⁠[15]

WRVO’s piece of January 16, 2016, describes him as a 19-year-old entrepreneur and the chief executive of Maidbot, a small Ithaca company. It writes that he and a team of seven had spent the previous 10 months mapping out the look, feel and launch of the robot, and that he declined to say how much money had been invested. The robot was then a prototype; its first edition was to clean hotel floors from guest rooms to ballrooms and meeting spaces, and the design included a rotor, an intake and a base plate with “really cool Omni wheels.” The team expected a testable version by late spring 2016, to be followed by a pilot program with hotels, sending machines to different hotel chains for feedback, and expected the robot on shelves in January 2017. He said: “We're not just trying to sell robots; we're trying to sell time.”⁠[2]

The Cornell Daily Sun wrote on January 29, 2016, that Maidbot was an Ithaca-based startup combining hospitality and robotics, based at the REV Accelerator Program and working closely with Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration; its prototype at the time cleaned hotel room floors autonomously, with the aims of lowering room-cleaning costs, reducing room attendants’ injury rates and making cleanliness more consistent. Maidbot competed in the RECESS Pitch Competition against 14 other college startups and was one of eight finalists in the Student Startup Madness competition at SXSW, set to pitch to investors in Austin, TexasTexasTexas is a U.S. state in the south-central United States, with its capital at Austin and its largest city Houston. It was admitted to the Union on December 29, 1845, as the 28th state, and the 2020 census (April 1, 2020) counted 29,145,505 residents.Open the full entry, in March. He said: “We're designing this for a particular use, we specifically want to create a commercial robot.” He also said: “Hospitality as a whole is very traditional and old fashioned.”⁠[10]

LODGING’s profile of November 7, 2016, writes that Maidbot then had nearly a dozen workable prototypes. The robot, Rosie, named after the Jetsons’ housekeeper, cleans guest-room floors while room attendants handle the rest; the article writes that studies showed it cut room-cleaning time by 10 to 20 percent and reduced housekeeping-related injuries. Each robot has a powerful vacuum and sensors that let it learn from its surroundings and collect data about each room, with alerts sent to operations staff through a mobile dashboard. He compared the robots’ technology to that of a self-driving car and said the autonomous software was being refined; the article writes that major hotel companies were watching the company closely, and he said it was building business relationships and getting onto authorized vendor lists but would not give details; the company planned pilot programs in major hotels. He said that some hotel veterans do not want to listen to a “20-year-old kid” who, they assume, does not know what he is talking about.⁠[1]

LODGING wrote in a 2018 follow-up that when it first met him in 2016, Maidbot was a small robotics startup preparing to pilot guest-room-cleaning robots. Tailos’s website states that the company built its first working prototype in 2016.⁠[17][12]

In the 2017 class of 25 Thiel Fellows named by the Thiel Foundation on June 16, 2017, he is item 15, listed with Austin, Texas, and with robotics as his field, and described as the founder of Maidbot, a robotics company that created the first housekeeping robot for hotels. The announcement states that the two-year fellowship gives young entrepreneurs $100,000 and mentorship from the Thiel Foundation’s network of technology entrepreneurs, investors and scientists, and encourages fellows to pursue full-time entrepreneurship instead of going to college. His biography on YPO’s website likewise names him as one of 25 Thiel Fellows of 2017.⁠[18][8]

The Thiel FellowshipThiel FellowshipThe Thiel Fellowship is a two-year grant program started by investor Peter Thiel and run by the Thiel Foundation that funds young people who skip or stop out of college to build new things instead. The program has been criticized by figures in education for encouraging young people to leave college.Open the full entry is a two-year program founded by Peter ThielPeter ThielPeter Thiel is an American entrepreneur and investor, a co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, and the first outside investor in Facebook. He is a partner at the venture capital firm Founders Fund and founded the Thiel Fellowship, which funds young people to leave college and build new things; his public skepticism of higher education, his support for Trump in 2016, and his funding of litigation against Gawker Media have drawn controversy.Open the full entry in 2011 for young people who want to build new things; fellows skip or stop out of college. As of November 2026 its website states that fellows receive a $250,000 grant.⁠[19]

He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2018, announced in November 2017. Built In Austin wrote on November 16, 2017, that at 21 the Cornell University dropout was the youngest Austinite on the list and that ForbesForbesForbes is an American business media brand that began with Forbes magazine, founded by B.C. Forbes in 1917. It is known for rankings such as the Forbes 400, the World’s Billionaires list and 30 Under 30, and operates Forbes.com, ForbesLive events and licensed editions in 81 countries. Since 2014 a majority stake has been held by the Hong Kong investment group Integrated Whale Media; a 2021 plan to list on the New York Stock Exchange through a special purpose acquisition company was terminated in 2022. It is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.Open the full entry included him in its “youngest” category of 36 people aged 13 to 23; the article writes that he launched Maidbot in 2015 and that the company is headquartered in Austin, with about 20 employees composed of former rocket scientists, hospitality professionals and serial entrepreneurs.⁠[20][11]

The Cornell Daily Sun writes that he was one of 12 Cornell alumni named in November 2017 to the list of 600 people in the United States. An article by the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business states that he was 21 and the founder of Maidbot, and that he saw the autonomous cleaning robot Rosie as the first in a suite of mechanical helpers for hospitality; the Jetsons-inspired robot was designed to cut floor-cleaning time, decrease worker injury and collect data. The Observer writes that he was named to the list in December, and that two seniors at the school had started an Entrepreneurship and Business Management course that year and one of them invited him to speak to the class.⁠[11][21][4]

On January 8, 2018, LODGING carried the news that Maidbot, Inc. had received a strategic investment from BISSELL, Inc.: BISSELL led the round, with existing and new investors 1517 Fund, Comet Labs and Rough Draft Ventures and strategic hospitality and industrial cleaning organizations taking part; the amount was not disclosed, and the funds were to support sales and marketing, engineering development and the move to mass production. The article writes that Maidbot had run pilot programs with several major hotel brands over the past year, that the pilots would continue through mid-2018 and that it expected to deliver its first products by late 2018. Ryan McLean, senior vice president of BISSELL, said: “Maidbot is leading the robotic transition in the hospitality industry.”⁠[16][22]

PhocusWire writes that he closed a $2 million Series A round for Maidbot and that BISSELL invested an undisclosed sum along with 1517 Fund, Comet Labs and Rough Draft Ventures; under the partnership BISSELL gained access to Maidbot’s robotics platforms, engineering, hardware and software, control systems and data, while Maidbot gained access to BISSELL’s wet-cleaning research and development, mass-production and operations processes and advisory support. He said: “We want to build thousands of units by the end of the year.” The article writes that the company’s staff then numbered 21, including former staff from Starwood Hotels and Resorts, SpaceXSpaceXSpaceX is a company founded by Elon Musk in 2002 whose businesses include space transportation, Starlink satellite communications and artificial intelligence. It went public in 2026 under the ticker SPCX.Open the full entry, NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is the U.S. federal agency responsible for the civilian space program, aeronautics research and space science. Established by law in 1958 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has run programs including Mercury, the Apollo Moon landings, the Space Shuttle, the International Space Station and Artemis.Open the full entry and AppleAppleApple is a public technology company founded in 1976 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Its business includes the iPhone, Mac, iPad, wearables, and services such as digital content, payments, and cloud storage. The company builds its product system through in-house hardware, operating systems, and services.Open the full entry. LODGING wrote in 2020 that Maidbot’s Series A was led by Octave Ventures, which is supported by Peter Thiel.⁠[15][14][7]

He said in January 2018 of housekeeping, “It's been the same for over 100 years,” and “The biggest innovation in housekeeping has been an electric vacuum which came out in 1905.” He said that room attendants were unsure of Rosie at first but said after a few days that they had much less back, shoulder and wrist pain, and that the data Rosie collects is as valuable as the efficiency it brings. He said in PhocusWire’s article that in the pilots room attendants, “89% of whom are female and over 60,” felt better at the end of the day because the robot took away a 35-pound vacuum. Robotics & Automation News writes that Maidbot is backed by PayPalPayPalPayPal Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: PYPL) is an American digital payments company that operates payment brands including PayPal, Venmo, Braintree, and Xoom, providing online and in-store payments, money transfers, and consumer credit to consumers and merchants worldwide.Open the full entry founder Peter Thiel.⁠[22][16][15]

The Cornell Daily Sun wrote on January 26, 2018, that he had guest lectured in courses at the Samuel Curtis Johnson School of Management and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations; he said, “I still think it's crazy professors ask me to speak,” and that it was “really nice” to be able to tell such a recent story that he hoped would get students excited. The article writes that, per its website, Maidbot hoped to deploy over 1,000 robots to hotels by the end of 2018 and had created over 21 jobs.⁠[11]

On a Monday evening in late March 2018 he spoke at eHub in Collegetown at an event sponsored by Life Changing Labs. The Cornell Daily Sun writes that he spoke of wanting to change something “that has stayed the same for hundreds of years,” called housekeeping “dull, dirty and dangerous” work and said he had looked for “forever problems” that will be around and are very frequent; the company then had 21 team members and was moving from prototype to product and sales, which he said were “all happening at once,” and it was working with some of the “largest hospitality companies in the world.” He advised students to keep an open mind, saying “your UberUberUber is a technology company headquartered in San Francisco, United States, whose legal name is Uber Technologies, Inc. Co-founded by Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick, it uses digital platforms to connect riders with drivers, delivery consumers with merchants, and shippers with carriers, with main businesses in Mobility, Delivery, and Freight. Dara Khosrowshahi has been chief executive officer since 2017.Open the full entry driver might give you the best advice of the year,” to value good mentors and a positive work environment, and to take time to step back, since “that investment will help you move much more forward”; he also said: “We may build robots, but we're not robots.”⁠[6]

On September 18, 2018, 1517 Fund released episode 19 of its show Subversion, in which he discussed what goes into launching a robotics company, why he moved his team to Austin, Texas, and how he sells to major hotel chains. In the 2024 podcast he said that hardly anyone wants to move to Ithaca, which is “freezing cold,” whereas “Austin checked all the boxes” for talent, customers and investors, and that he loves live music.⁠[23][3]

LODGING wrote in its follow-up of December 19, 2018, that Maidbot’s first pilot was with a partner in Houston, that the company planned to have 100 working units in hotels nationwide by the end of 2018, that adoption was concentrated in upscale and luxury hotels, which take up new technology faster, and that the company had added deployment specialists to help staff learn the technology. Over two years Rosie had gained more autonomous cleaning, safety features, standardized user interfaces and a touch screen for hotel messages, and its sounds had been updated; it now worked in public areas such as corridors, meeting rooms and ballrooms, and multiple robots could coordinate cleanings. The data it collected while working revealed issues such as mold and WiFi dead zones, and he said some pilot hotels improved their connectivity as a result, helping guest satisfaction. The article writes that guest rooms were cleaned about 20 percent faster on average and public areas up to 80 percent faster; he said Rosie’s greatest value is improved housekeeper health and wellbeing.⁠[17]

The article writes that he had stepped back from robotics work to focus on scaling the company and credited his team for its growth; Rosie robots were manufactured in San Antonio, a few hours’ drive from Maidbot’s Austin headquarters; the company projected 2,000 Rosie units deployed across its portfolio by 2020, had domestic and international contracts, and he hoped to expand Rosie into hospitals and airports.⁠[17]

QØ’s alumni profile of March 9, 2019, writes that he founded Maidbot at 19 and wants to “bring robots to the people.” It writes that Rosie helps housekeeping staff by cleaning floors, cutting room-cleaning time by 15 to 20 percent and reducing worker injuries, and that he calls it a “mobile computer in every room, an indoor data platform” that collects cleaning data, can track volatile chemicals and can flag potential mold; and that, he said, it had talked with Marriott InternationalMarriott InternationalMarriott International, Inc. is an American lodging company that franchises, operates and licenses hotel, residential, timeshare and other properties; at year-end 2025 its system had 9,805 properties in 145 countries and territories.Open the full entry, Hilton WorldwideHilton WorldwideHilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. is one of the largest global hospitality companies, founded in 1919 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia.Open the full entry and Wyndham about using fleets of Rosies. The profile also writes that Maidbot was on the cover of LODGING, featured in Forbes and named to Inc.’s Top 30 Emerging Companies list. In it he advises surrounding oneself with passionate people and focusing on what motivates you.⁠[7]

LODGING wrote on November 16, 2020, that Maidbot had closed a Series B round led by RB, amount undisclosed, with participation from Octave Ventures, several other venture capital firms, hospitality and commercial real estate executives and family offices; the funds were to support production and deployments in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. RB is a health, hygiene and nutrition company whose brands include Lysol, Dettol, Harpic, Finish and Mucinex, and the two companies would collaborate on commercial cleaning solutions to improve hygiene in hospitality and commercial real estate. The article describes Maidbot as a commercial service robotics company based in Austin, Texas, and Rosie as having evolved from a commercial floor-cleaning robot into an indoor mobile data platform that maps environmental data such as temperature, humidity and WiFi signal strength across physical spaces; the company said it had a finished product, established production and large deals signed in Europe and parts of Asia, with customers including hotels, resorts, casinos, commercial real estate, airports, apartment buildings, universities and stadiums. The article calls him the 24-year-old chief executive and gives his view that COVID-19 had had “an unprecedented impact” on these sectors and that robotics can help make physical spaces healthy and safe again. Rahul Kadyan, RB’s executive vice president of Global Business Solutions, said: “We're delighted to invest in Maidbot's vision to bring robotics to the commercial service industry.”⁠[14]

Hospitality Technology writes that he points to National Institutes of Health data showing that vacuuming is the second-highest cause of injuries among room attendants, with repetitive motion leading to back, wrist and shoulder injuries; Rosie takes over the vacuuming, reducing cleaning time and giving consistent results, and room attendants report feeling better at the end of the day, with less pain. During the pandemic Rosie cleaned lobbies and corridors, freeing staff for guest-focused tasks; poor WiFi can lead to guest complaints and discounts, so the data Rosie collects helps protect revenue. He said: “Rosie does not replace associates; Rosie supports associates by taking the physical load of vacuuming off their SOPs,” and “Our goal is to also have Rosie help attract and retain staff over time.”⁠[13]

On March 1, 2022, the company announced in Austin that it had completed a rebrand from Maidbot to TAILOS (Tailos, pronounced Tay-lōs), a name drawn from Talos, the robot built in Greek mythology by the god of technology to protect Crete. The release writes that the company was founded in a dorm room at Cornell University and that its products comprise a small self-driving vehicle that cleans floors in commercial properties such as hotels, multi-family housing, offices, senior living facilities, airports and stadiums, and a web-based data platform giving operators analytics and alerts; its Austin team of real estate experts, rocket scientists and robotics engineers includes people who previously worked at NASA, Dell, IBMIBMIBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is an American information technology company, renamed in 1924 from the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R).Open the full entry, Apple, iFly, Flextronics and Southwest Research Institute. The release gives his full name as Micah Estis Green and his title as founder, president and chief executive; he said: “We are extremely excited about bringing this major change as the foundation of the next chapter for the company.” He also said the company has “a monumental vision of building different types of technologies.”⁠[24]

Automated Warehouse wrote on June 23, 2022, that Tailos had announced the election of Melonee Wise, founder of Fetch Robotics, to its board of directors. He called Wise “a visionary and titan in robotics,” said she had been an inspiration to him and many on his team, and said he expected her leadership and expertise to take the company to the next level. The article writes that Fetch Robotics was acquired by Zebra Technologies in 2021 for $305 million.⁠[25]

On November 28, 2024, he was the guest on episode 130 of The Robot Industry Podcast, hosted by Jim Beretta; the episode page calls him the founder and chief executive of Tailos, based in Austin, Texas, which makes the robot vacuum Rosie. In the episode he said the industry had about 2 million open positions in the United States and turnover above 140 percent; the host said more than a thousand units had been deployed. He said customers report savings of about two to three times what they pay, on a lease model with the first month free for many properties, and that one property’s guest satisfaction rose from the low 90s to 98. He said Rosie weighs about 18 pounds and runs for up to three hours, with three swappable battery packs per robot; properties deploy from 2 to 45 robots, about four on average; automated commercial vacuuming represents about $10–11 billion in annual recurring revenue and commercial cleaning as a whole about $56 billion. He said the company aims at a fully connected ecosystem of robotics and technology solutions for commercial real estate, covering everything from cleaning to delivery, security and maintenance and collecting a lot of data about these spaces; that it had developed multi-agent robotics in which several robots work together to clean larger spaces such as hotel ballrooms, large apartment buildings and airports; that it had launched on a cruise ship with a major brand; and that it had launched, or was about to launch, at an airport with a major airline to clean gate and office areas.⁠[3]

As of November 2026, Tailos’s website names him as the company’s founder. The website states that the company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and that its main product, Rosie, an AI-powered commercial robot vacuum for cleaning companies, hotels, multi-family apartments and senior living facilities, has been deployed as more than 1,000 robots in 12 countries and is offered through a month-to-month subscription at $479 per month or a purchase program.⁠[12]

PhocusWire writes that he dropped out of Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration after his freshman year in 2015; The Cornell Daily Sun wrote in March 2018 that he attended Cornell for one year before dropping out. The Observer writes that as his business grew he chose entrepreneurship over continuing college, and he said: “It was definitely a little scary dropping out of college.” The article writes that a Cornell policy allowing students on personal leave to return within five years gave him a safety net, that his parents were more concerned about his dropping out than he was, and that he believes it was worth it.⁠[15][6][4]

His biography on the YPO website states that he is on leave from the bachelor’s program in hospitality administration at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration (concentration in entrepreneurship). QØ wrote in 2019 that he dropped out to focus full time on Maidbot, that he has “no intention to go back to school,” and that he said: “I prefer to get my education in the real world, launching companies.” On the other hand, his author biography on Hospitality Net calls him an alum of the “Cornell School of Hospitality Administration.”⁠[8][7][26]

His author biography on Hospitality Net states that he was awarded a Kairos Fellowship and guest lectures at Cornell in the Executive MBA and Industrial and Labor Relations programs. YPO’s website carries a profile of him, listing him in YPO’s Pacific U.S. and Western U.S. regions and linking to his member profile on YPO Connect.⁠[26][8]

In the November 2024 podcast he said that he had been in Austin for eight years and was “not looking back at all”; he and his wife love taking their dog to the park, he plays the ukulele and makes music with his wife, and his pastimes include cycling, tennis and Barton Springs pool.⁠[3]

His biography on the YPO website states that outside work he enjoys longboarding, windsurfing and producing electronic music, and that he follows a saying attributed to Abraham LincolnAbraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States (1861–1865). Born to a frontier farming family in Kentucky, he had less than a year of formal schooling, taught himself law, and served in the Illinois legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives before winning the presidency as the Republican candidate in 1860. During the Civil War he preserved the Union, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and pushed the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery through Congress. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theatre in Washington on April 14, 1865, and died the next day.Open the full entry, “the best way to predict the future is to create it”; his author biography on Hospitality Net gives his pastimes as cycling, windsurfing and producing electronic music.⁠[8][26]

Tailos: Official website: https://tailos.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[12]

Thiel Fellowship: Official website: https://thielfellowship.org/ (opens in a new window).⁠[19]

LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry: Public profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micahgreen7/ (opens in a new window).⁠[8][26]