Erin Price-Wright

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The a16z Show · Three Startups Reinventing Critical Infrastructure · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

There's a lot of tech that you can interject at essentially every step of that process.

Like, how are you deciding what to build, where to partner?

You know, what are you developing in-house versus, you know, where are you going to market?

That's a new one.

You're not going to, you're not going to vertically integrate to be a mining equipment manufacturing company.

And you have to train people.

Yeah, we've wanted to do a mining investment for a long time.

You know, when you think about venture capital, you know, we care about massive markets.

And, you know, there's not that many massive markets left that have been sort of like largely untapped by technology.

And mining sort of screams one of the largest markets in the world today.

And very little adoption of technology.

So, you know, over many cycles, we've gone out and spent a lot of time meeting companies.

And, you know, as I mentioned before, the challenge is how do you sell a point solution or a point piece of technology into this industry that is has very little incentive to.

to adopt it and is also like has a very complicated geopolitical dynamic where you have a very large global player with their hand on the scale.

We put out a piece a couple of weeks ago around our thesis in mining and why we think a vertical mining company is the answer because you actually, we actually do believe you have to control every single piece

of the entire journey, the entire life cycle of, you know, an atom of metal end to end to actually be able to build a tech company here.

This is not about, you know, a point solution for one particular part of the process in order to actually capture the gains in efficiency and build a feasible business.

You really have to own the entire process end to end.

And the political tailwinds are there.

There is, you know, even my conservationist mother, who I think if like we had had this conversation five years ago, she would have clutched her pearls.

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