Gerard Barron
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Getting a new industry started is tough.
We started this company in 2011.
So my biggest gift from Nautilus was made some good money out of it, but it taught me about polymetallic nodules.
And so in 2011, we started this one, and here we are 2025.
And we're at what I believe to be the final stretch before the industry becomes big and commercial.
So that's a very long answer to Eric's question, but yeah.
Oh, thank you.
I've seen people chewing away at these.
How many packets did our friend Palmer Lucky eat of these?
Because he seemed to be chewing a lot that day.
Yeah?
Well, thank you.
Well, I bought you a gift today as well.
Well, this is a very precious polymetallic nodule.
And we had them...
Made about 5 million years old, this one.
We had them made by an artist in Detroit.
And this one is particularly oxidized, turned a bit gold.
And it's the same as the one that sits on the Resolute desk.
We prepared one for President Trump when he signed the executive order on April 24.