This led him to make a rather unheard of offer to a homeless stranger who was living on the streets of New York City. McConlogue approached the Leo Grand, 37, in August 2013 and told him he had an offer for him: either take $100 or if interested, he could teach him computer programming skills for two months. The homeless man turned out to be a wise one and opted for computer programming.
He did take his lessons seriously, for he has now launched his first mobile app dubbed ‘Trees for Cars’. The app offers simple, environmentally factored carpool solutions to the user. The duo first started meeting for an hour each day with the lessons being conducted outdoors near Chelsea Piers where Grand usually slept. He was even furnished with a used Chromebook personal laptop in addition to several coding text books.
The 2 months McConlogue had offered surpassed and he carried on since he now had the support of his boss John Katzman (founder of Princeton Review) who allowed them to work full time on the mobile app and also gave them access to the New York offices of Noodle (the search engine company). Where’s there’s a will, there’s a will: the learning lasted 5 months and now Leo Grand enjoys the fruit of his labor with the project winning thousands of enthusiasts and it’s already available for Apple and Android users.
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