Stark chief executive Uwe Horstmann and chief technology officer Johannes Schaback tell Sequoia that the lesson of Ukraine is not any single weapon but the innovation ecosystem behind it. The company designs every system for mass manufacturing from day one and runs 10 to 15 programs like a venture portfolio.
They also describe how a failed public trial became a forging moment, with engineers working through a freezing night at a test range until they landed three consecutive hits.
