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

It's also just extremely hard and dangerous and specific to service. matched

Like you see those videos of people climbing the ladder up to the top of the wind turbine. matched

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So fine, I seed wind.

We can move we can move past wind.

Yeah, it's wild how much of a mystery what's happening on the grid is at any given time. matched

Like we really have very little visibility and it's very hard for, I think, centralized utilities to deploy meaningful software to understand that. matched

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When we think about as VCs, like what types of things do we look at and what do we get excited about? matched

I think companies that kind of are going at this monitoring from the opposite direction, like how do you get software almost insidiously on the grid? matched

Like, how do you start learning more about demand, demand and generation as close to the source as possible? matched

And then try to feed that information back from each other, like the idea that you're gonna go sell a software tool. matched

to a PGE or similar and have a reasonably speedy top down implementation where you actually get good signal and metrics and can actually do interesting things with that data. matched

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A little bit unbelievable. matched

Well, when you look at energy desks for the big hedge funds or energy trading companies, their weather guy is usually the highest paid person on the desk outside the portfolio manager. matched

Those climate and weather PhDs that are working on a trading desk, they are just absolutely raking it in because they're like matched

God right now because there's very little other data. matched

Insane.

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