On 30 June, Vontier closed the sale of Teletrac Navman to the private equity firm Respida Capital. The headline valuation was 220 million dollars, which in our industry is a real transaction and not a footnote. The structure is where it gets interesting, and you have to go to the quarterly filing to find it. […]
Picture a van on the motorway at 100 km/h, heading for the border, at half past midnight. Nothing about that is remarkable in itself, except that this particular van belongs to a regional service fleet that is always back in the depot by early evening and has never once left the district after dark. The
In May 2026, when Google shipped Antigravity 2.0 at I/O, people started talking more about applying the advances in agentic coding also to the transport field. After all, it should be easy: if agents can build software, then surely they can automate much of a dispatchers work? It sounds like a logical consequence, but it
More than one year ago, I left a comfortable corporate job as CTO and started working for myself. I have written here about the early lessons, the tax surprises and the emotional roller coaster of the first months. This is the post I was most curious to write: the twelve-month verdict. What did a year
A few months ago, an engineering manager I advise asked me a question that has been rattling around in my head ever since. He was building a small team and wanted my opinion on hiring. Not which stack, not which seniority levels, not which titles. What kind of person he should bet on. It is
I visited an event last week, set up by the BVL with the topic of Energy meets Logistics – how logistics companies can earn money with energy and energy storage. The pitch was rather simple: logistics companies have a lot of space available for rooftop-solar, they have heavy machines which (if electrified) could earn some
One year ago, I wouldn’t have been able to write this article. Not because I didn’t have opinions about software development, years and years in engineering leadership will give you plenty of those, but because I hadn’t written production code in years. When I went back to the IDE as a solopreneur, I expected to
One of the greatest privileges of my shift from corporate executive to Solopreneur is the freedom and the necessity to learn. In a corporate C-level role, you are often consumed by management overhead, leaving little time to “touch the metal.” Now, as a freelancer, I have the opportunity to experiment rapidly. For me, this meant
If I asked you, “Will the new mobile app features be ready for the trade fair in March?”, what would you say? In many organizations I help, the answer is a hesitant “We hope so.” When I dig deeper into their data, I find that their teams meet their Sprint Goals about 50% of the
“We have Scrum Masters, but I’m not sure what they actually do all day besides setting up meetings and asking people what they did yesterday?” I hear this often during due diligence or organizational assessments. I have also caught myself asking this question during my own time as CTO. CEOs and investors look at the