One of the topics discussed at the RailFreight Summit 2025, which took place in Gdańsk on 8 and 9 April, was technology in the rail freight industry. Which technologies are promising? Are great technological advances wishful thinking or the future of the sector? TMV Investor Joshua Gold took the opportunity to issue an important appeal to attendees.
“You may be wondering what I am doing here”, Gold said during his introduction to the crowd. The Rail Freight Summit does not exactly sound like a typical event to speak at for an investor. However, TMV is heavily involved in the transport (and rail) sector, and so he had some insights to share.
Gold had an important message to get across: Be serious about innovating. “Blockbuster was once the leading company in movie rentals. They should have been Netflix, but failed to look ahead.” Co-speaker Chad Van Derrick from Tideworks noted that Blockbuster once even had the chance to buy Netflix, but squandered that opportunity.