Boots, Boards & Breakthroughs - Jake Windle | Part I
Drone Wars11 Jun 2025

Boots, Boards & Breakthroughs - Jake Windle | Part I

In Part I of this special two-part episode, host Dan Magy reconnects with an old friend—Jake Windle, former Master Chief at Naval Special Warfare and now a partner at Harpoon Ventures. The conversation kicks off with Jake's transition from elite military operations to early-stage tech, and how he became one of the first to identify drones as a rising threat on the battlefield. Jake shares the origin story of Citadel Defense and recounts the scrappy, experimental beginnings of counter-UAS war...

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