Illustration: Intelligencer Late last summer, the founders of a small company in Ukraine that made software to manage swarms of drones were weighing whether to work with Erik Prince, the founder of the mercenary firm Blackwater. “Erik Prince is fucking cruising around telling everybody that he’s going to take them big time and he’s best friends with Trump and Hegseth and all these people and he wants to invest,” recalled an individual who spoke with the founders and advised them against