# 98 - Tech at War: Lessons from Ukraine for the Next Generation of Defense Entrepreneurs — with Dimko Zhluktenko, Soldier, Founder, Entrepreneur

<p>Defense tech is being rewritten in real time — not in labs or conference rooms, but on the frontlines of Ukraine.</p><p>Join me in my conversation with with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/d1mnewz/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dimko Zhluktenko</a> — soldier, drone pilot , founder of <a href="https://dzygaspaw.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dzyga&#39;s Paw</a> ($6M raised, 70+ countries), analyst at Ukraine&#39;s 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment RAID, and now founder of <a href="https://www.hasta.fund/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Hasta</a>, a DefTech VC fund.</p><p>Dimko has lived every dimension of defense tech at once: as a soldier who uses the technology, as a founder who sources and funds it, and as an analyst who extracts lessons from it. What he shares about drone warfare, and what actually matters on the battlefield, his analysis of Ukraine, Europe, ... is something no conference panel can replicate and a must for all defenders of liberty and democracy.</p><p><br></p>