Turner Caldwell
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3 recordings
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5 Aug
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What I think will have demonstrated that the, you know, the 10-year mission will have been accomplished, other than building those 10 plants, is that we will no longer be as worried about, like, our fundamental capability to go and build this complex infrastructure.
Like, we will have unlocked it.
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Like it was the dream.
I spent about a decade at Tesla and got to run around the battery supply chain.
When Elon sets like super aggressive targets, the goal is actually to get the team to think really deliberately.
There's a thousand things that have to happen, but a hundred of them cannot be done in six months, so we have to go attack those hundred things.
Yeah.
So I spent about a decade at Tesla and got to run around the battery supply chain most recently was spending a lot of time on the minerals and metals side of things.
And a lot of our focus was trying to identify how do we debottleneck that part of the supply chain and make sure that the minerals that batteries need could keep up with battery production.
And similar to what Chandler was saying, this is an industry that the major players are 50 to 100 years old and that way
Of doing things, companies like that that are large and conservative really get set in that way of doing things.
And so as we were engaging, or as I was engaging with those companies and as we were building infrastructure in that space at Tesla, what became very apparent is that the industry is massively software deficient.
And a lot of the challenges that come up when you're trying to build this infrastructure is the coordination layer, the orchestration layer.
Mm-hmm.
How do you manage a large, complex refinery with a town?
pool that is shrinking, but how do you manage large complex mining operations again with a talent pool that's shrinking?
And what we've landed on is that you have to go full bore, kind of like leveraging the advances in autonomy in automotive and humanoid robots to go and apply that to refineries and to to mining operations.
Yeah, I think flat orgs is hypercritical, right?
You need information to flow as quickly as possible.
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