Alexander Ens

Engineer / Air Defence

[Alexander Ens @Alexander__Ens]

WASP Interceptor: Wide Area Scalable Protector.

Check us out at Eurosatory 2026: Hall 6, Booth H280.

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@JulianRoepcke Cope-cages haha
Send 2 drones in a row ;)
Already been done

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@immad Exactly. Ppl getting offended for not being treated well are snowflakes. But the deck and info sharing to competitors, is inconsiderate and borderline illegal.

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@aphysicist I doubt you heard it only once

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Missing all the stories where VCs send your confidential data directly to your competition, and when confronted blame you for not using a data room.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

[Alexander Ens @Alexander__Ens]

@boxcardavid @westmagco @a16z @foundersfund @LuxCapital @MenloVentures Do your motors require neodymium magnets?

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@TimOnPoint "They took a time-tested, highly-successful commercial design—an oil field service boat—and adapted it for a new mission." So they *adapted* a design.

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@antoniogm She's right

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@bscholl More thrust gets you off the pad faster.

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@David_Hambling The Sting as well... Many companies have a copy

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@David_Hambling It's very dense - good for warheads for volume reasons, cheaper than tungsten.

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@Austen Product liability

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@DeltaClimbs Ray Dalio

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@k0k1eth Plenty of students on less than 1600 / month.

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@levelsio Another product that shouldn't be subscription based.

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@trockenfisch @gepardtatze It's swiss.

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@marckohlbrugge If there is no cost in keeping hardware running, it shouldn't be a subscription

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@marckohlbrugge I literally won't buy whoop because of the subscription model.

[Alexander Ens @Alexander__Ens]

@cwamidon Haha same here whenever i explain how air defense with drone interceptors must work