Langston Whitlock at the age of 17 created a business to help veterans, homeless individuals, and elderly. After running across a homeless veteran who said that many people across Atlanta didn’t have transportation to get to doctors appointments, Langston started SafeTrip which was a driving service that could bring these individuals, who had no source of transportation, to their appointments. SafeTrip was made into an app that people can use to book the rides that they need to get to their appointments.
The most innovative part of the whole business in my opinion is that acceptance of insurance as payment for these rides. This could not be any more perfect for those who happen to have that insurance but not much besides that or even if they just don’t have a car and being able to have insurance pay for it is an added bonus!
Products and solutions to help the elderly and disabled are so needed! This is a beautiful example of someone seeing an issue, thinking about it creatively, and implementing a strategy to solve it. I think it is interesting that at 17 he was able to work through a process to create an app for the service as well. Also the insurance coverage for the rides is a very smart move, one less thing to worry about for those that have it!
Great post I love to hear about businesses created to help those in need, and I love to see those businesses and the people who created them receiving attention. Its crazy that he was 17 when he started this business! Great post very informative.