Ukraine

“We've also, internally, we had a big team in the Ukraine and Poland, and we've almost killed most of our external dev, mainly because the speed of development.”

“We detected in December of 2021 the early indicia of Russia probing in a way that was similar to how they probed before they went into Georgia, before they went into Crimea, when they got more involved in Syria, and, you know, briefed government officials in b…”

“Had we not done that, it would have been much harder for President Zelenskyy to get, get the message out on what was happening. It would be much harder to see what was happening on the front. It would be much harder to see the atrocities that the Russians Cont…”

“Many of these drones are single-use drones, so there is no sustainment.”

“Sometimes the rhetoric and Silicon Valley of like, oh my God, life and death, whatever, is also just fucking stupid. Like none of us is, you know, gonna get shot at in the trenches of Ukraine if our stock price goes down.”

“The single thing that I'm concerned about is Trump winning on multiple dimensions, giving away Ukraine you know, Supreme Court justices, very, very, very poor execution of every aspect of government a level of corruption. That I think would follow.”

“So I actually think that the thing that's in Ukraine's interest is to have a ceasefire and unfortunately seed some of the Eastern territory You know, and, but have some, there needs to be some security guarantee with teeth that is not NATO, but it's something …”

“It's a war in Ukraine where America could not have botched the initial response more.”

“My guess is that and it's a complete conjecture here. I have no insider information whatsoever, but my guess is that we see some sort of detente or some sort of negotiated settlement take place probably over the next year would be my guess. And if I had to bet…”

“I think that there's a lot of things going on well in the world of technology, but I think it's absolutely insane that we have war going on in Europe. Russia attacking Ukraine, killing people, and everybody's just basically forgotten about it.”

“I believe Ukraine is, is building one and a half million FPV drones, the small first person view drones, drones a year. I think Russia is building roughly the same.”

“When we started Helsing in March, 2021, we actually put one of our slides that we thought there were going to be two galvanizing events. One of them was going to be an invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the other one an invasion of Taiwan by China.”

“And by the way, the initial defense of Ukraine would not have worked without Starlink.”

“I think it's a very serious, very real concern. We should be living under the assumption that whatever happened in Ukraine now, Russia will try in another country over the next years, and we need to be ready for this.”

“I'm investing a lot actually in Ukrainian defense startups, because I think my vision is that Ukraine could become the manufacturing hub for defense.”

“If those companies are myopically focused on that conflict, they will not have a business coming out the other end.”