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Freight vehicles that don't need a driver - or even a road? ⚡️

26 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Kevin Damoah, CEO of Glide, built a company making freight vehicles that work without drivers or roads. He talks about the pain of building it, why staying in control matters, and how his family kept him going through the hard years.

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I discovered that if I want my mission to stay the same, I have to be in the driver's seat. I have to operate at a place of risk and being uncomfortable. Hi, I'm Kevin Damoah. I'm the founder and CEO of Glide. We're on a mission to make road and rail more accessible. It took trial and error. It took a lot of pain to get to where we are now. I think folks see all the successes, but a lot of folks that have done this knows that it doesn't come without a lot of heartache and pain on the way there. And my family's been with me through all that. I think the word that I can share is they're proud now of where we are. And it's a dream fulfilled, but not a mission fulfilled yet.