LongD: More than just the first name in long-distance transportation
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LongD is a fashion brand that arose from long-distance transportation app and website. The brand arose from an effort to help the long-distance traveler with convenient, efficient, safe, flexible and economical intercity ground transportation service.
LongD founder & CEO, Antonio Vernon, is a gig economy veteran. He has completed over 25,000 Uber trips, including over 5000 in 2016, 2017 & 2018. He has provided on-demand transportation for Uber, Lyft, Sidecar and Via. Vernon holds an M.B.A. in Finance, with distinction, from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Statistics from Washington University. He was a financial reporting and strategic planning analyst and managed pizza delivery services in college. Before college Vernon was an elite mathlete.
Lonnie, also known as the LongD Stallion or Lonnie the LongD Stallion, is the official corporate mascot of LongD Services, Inc. Lonnie is a horse (Equus ferus caballus) who by biological custom was assigned male at birth. His personal pronouns are he/him/his. However, he is known to sometimes present himself in a male voice and sometimes in a female voice.
We market Lonnie in various stuffed animal forms as the “Official Party Animal of the Girls Night”. In that form, he serves as an ambassador and spokesman against bullying, especially the kind seen during a girls night when celebrants are sometimes influenced by their peers to carry props that they may consider demeaning, degrading or offensive. Lonnie hopes that you would rather have him as your arm candy.
