About this episode

Nelson Nigel shares his journey from being a taxi driver to founding Kidmoto, a service providing safe airport transfers for families with young children.

Nelson Nigel is the Founder and CEO of Moto Nation. Back in 2016 Nelson as an Uber driver noticed that taxis and car services do not offer installed child car seats, and parents are helpless. He found a void in the transportation marketplace that Uber and Lyft have explicitly left open. Nelson created a mobile app to provide a convenient and safe alternative to lugging car seats to and from airports to change how parents travel with small children. Today, Kidmoto is a trusted brand that connects parents to a network of professionally trained drivers that provide airport transfers with secured child car seats for safe and convenient airport travel in 52 US cities. After operating for 6 years Kidmoto has over 40k completed rides, 40 part-time employees, 500 independent drivers nationwide, over a 7-figure revenue for 2024 and is valued at $25 million.

People in this episode

Host: Steve Anderson

Guest: Nelson Nigel

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• transportation
• child safety
• mobile apps
• business growth

Keywords

• Nelson Nigel
• Kidmoto
• Uber
• child car seats
• transportation marketplace
• business owner
• mobile app

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Moto Nation, Uber, Lyft, Kidmoto

Places: NYC, 52 US cities

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