Ep. 13 - From Backup Dancer to Reindustrializing America | Kevin Damoa

Kevin Damoa started as a backup dancer in Los Angeles. Then he went to war.After serving in both the Army and Air National Guard, Kevin spent years at SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Harley-Davidson's Serial 1 Cycle Company. At every stop, he kept finding the same broken system hiding in the same place: the seam where road and rail are supposed to hand off to each other. Nobody had fixed it. Not the military. Not the biggest aerospace companies in the world. Not anyone.So Kevin built the fix himself.He's the Founder and CEO of Glīd Technologies, a dual-use logistics infrastructure company building road/rail autonomous vehicles and an AI coordination layer that works across commercial freight and contested defense environments. One system. Two very different threat environments. No new infrastructure required.In this episode, we go deep on the logistics gap that's been hiding in plain sight for decades, why the problem persisted, the grind of building hardware from scratch after leaving some of the most prestigious companies in America, and the moment Taylor Transport's president said he never conceived this technology would exist in his lifetime.Kevin's unfair advantage isn't the technology. It's the biography. Nobody else has the full map.Topics covered:Railhead operations in Iraq and the logistics flaw that wouldn't let him goBuilding dual-mode vehicles that operate on both road and standard-gauge railThe Glīd product suite: GlīderM, Rāden, and EZRA-1SIXDefense logistics, GPS-denied environments, and the dual-use visionWhat it takes to get your first customer when you're selling the future@50chairs For the 50chairs Playbook from every episode go to www.50chairs.com