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The shipping industry is ripe for innovation all over, and of course it's been driven by innovation for decades, at least since the 1950s when the shipping cont
by jaysonelliot 11y ago
The shipping industry is ripe for innovation all over, and of course it's been driven by innovation for decades, at least since the 1950s when the shipping container was invented.
The trucking industry will absolutely see several new billion-dollar companies emerge in the near future. If I were investing in a startup, though, I'd want it to be run by founders with a background in trucking, shipping, and/or logistics.
If the only experience either founder has is one of them working a summer job at his uncle's company delivering office supplies, I'd be a bit wary. Between Lewis & Goodale, they've run a game studio, a natural-language processing startup, and had various software development roles.
You could argue that Uber broke into a blue-collar market without any experience, but they had the general public as customers, The trucking industry is a very insular place, they're going to need to get a co-founder who comes from the world they're trying to break into.
- samstave 11y agoIn 2007 or so, a number of us engineers from Lockheed had created a shipping/trucking cargo tracking device... It was a combo rfid tag with gprs, gps, wifi and mesh networking capabilities along with sensors like accelerometers... Nobody wanted it.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoAround 2009 I talked to some people who offer that exact mix and were still at least open.
- Yakimoto 11y agoin 2012 we had this in Afghanistan on almost every single container/pallet/load.
- pnathan 11y agoI chatted with an engineer from Oracle a couple years ago who talked about those existing in Afghanistan, he was involved in that project somehow.
- samstave 11y agoYeah thats what we originally built at Savi... but there was no security, wifi or any other security in those original tags. This was the impetus behind us trying to make the modular version.
- sdrothrock 11y agoDo you know what they were called/who made them? I had no idea they were actually in production.