Erin Price-Wright

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1,223 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Aug

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The a16z Show · America's Energy Problem: The Grid That Built America Can’t Power Its Future · 16 Jul 2025 podcast

Like it's basically having a giant, massive, huge nuclear reactor in the sky that will go forever. matched

And Texas isn't a green state. matched

This isn't a political issue, but it's like, why aren't we deploying the world's cheapest form of power literally everywhere we possibly can and then just matched

putting batteries everywhere. matched

Like there just should be batteries everywhere. matched

It's bananas to me that batteries as a topic has like recently gotten caught in the sort of political crosshairs. matched

We really, as a society, need to be good at power storage and batteries. matched

Like this shouldn't be a controversial topic. matched

We invented the lithium-ion battery. matched

And yet today, if you want to buy a battery, whether it's for a drone or for the grid or for your car or for whatever it is, like you're either buying a battery made in a lights out factory in China or you're buying a battery produced in Vietnam by a Chinese company. matched

And like there's no meaningful effort in the US to change that. matched

And I think that this is a really critical problem, not just to manage matched

Power load on the grid, but for power for all of the things that we need to power the next generation of innovation in the United States. matched

I think we'd be hard pressed. matched

On the American dynamism team to think of a company that we've met with an interesting technology in the last two years that doesn't have a battery in it somewhere. matched

So as a country, we need to be investing in battery technology and battery manufacturing. matched

So matched

Oh, my parents will be sh shaking their heads if matched

I think broadly speaking, our approach to energy in the US just needs to be yes and. matched

We look at the sort of atrophy of our power build out over the last thirty, fifty, whatever you know, you name your time frame years compared to let's say China. matched

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