General Partner @a16z building American Dynamism, formerly @PalantirTech. Up for any adventure but Arizona will always be home.
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2012
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Erin Price-Wright retweeted
Fable 5.2 just designed:
▸ a battery-powered handheld pet
▸ a home voice-assistant hub
▸ a USB speakerphone
It engineered the electronics, enclosures, and firmware for each one.
With just @diodeinc + some 3D printers in the loop. Wild.
AI is the Enabler, Manufacturing is the Moat!
👀 @diodeinc 👀
It's time to build!
Deciding to be a nation of creators is not zero sum. Read about our efforts on bipartisan permitting reform, from the legendary Matt Cronin.
In 1937, San Francisco finished the Golden Gate Bridge, initially derided as "the bridge that couldn't be built," ahead of schedule and under budget.
Nearly a century later, the same city couldn't build a single public toilet without exorbidant costs and years of delay.
Across America, communities face the same dysfunction: stalled factories, delayed energy projects, and crumbling infrastructure. We should be building faster and more safely than ever before. Instead, we struggle to deliver the basics.
The problem: our system rewards process over results. A growing bipartisan consensus offers a chance to change that.
a16z's Matt Cronin on the 5 priorities bipartisan legislation must address to get America building again: a16z.news/p/america-can-buil…
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
Europe’s critical industries - from manufacturing to industrials to commercial aerospace and of course defence - consist of some of the best businesses in the world. We want to build a new type of company to scale them up in order strengthen Europe’s defence and industrial foundations. I’ve long long been passionate about what I call Private Equity 3.0, and being half European and born in Italy, there’s no better or more important place to deploy this model. As primes and the winning neo-primes scale to deliver critical platforms for our defence, it’s equally important we scale the rest of the industrial base around them. It also turns out this same dynamic, fragmentation, and lack of scale and technology exists in many other critical industries as well. It won’t be easy, but Onodrim was started to go solve this by building the leading long term and trusted partner across capabilities and industries to the ecosystem. Many more announcements to come soon.
ft.com/content/e6a98d84-eadc…
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
I’ll be in Austin for CoRL! We incorporated three months ago, raised from a16z American Dynamism + Accel, and are moving fast to put robots to work for paying customers.
We’re aggressively hiring across ML, software, and hardware in SF. If you’re excited about commercial robot deployments, come find me. There’s a lot to build.
DM me or email [email protected] :^)
I’m just a lowly investor but I gotta say, it’s pretty exciting to see my signature on that cabinet…
Go work @heronpower and help make energy in America cheaper, cleaner, more reliable, more abundant.
We've been marking major milestones at @heronpower the past few weeks, from completing our first two prototype Heron Links to pushing power at 34.5kVAC in our backyard test facility in Scotts Valley. Come join the fun, we're hiring!
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Big things happening at @MarianaMinerals!
BREAKING: Utah is turning the page at the former US Magnesium site. @UtahFFSL has selected @MarianaMinerals as the new operator to modernize operations, help fund the cleanup of decades of contamination, and conserve water for the Great Salt Lake.
Congratulations to @zabie_e, a true n of one. I'm lucky to call you a friend and partner, and thrilled to keep working with you in this next phase of your career. I promise I'm not crying! 😭😭😭
Bon courage et bonne chance. And @davideasnaghi - you're getting the best of 'em.
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Erin Price-Wright retweeted
a two-year-old mining company has raised $400M. @a16z, @khoslaventures and the CIA's venture fund are all on the cap table.
@jclozano9897 co-founded @MarianaMinerals with @tbc415 and @baker_tilney, two friends from stanford. it's now worth $1.6B. they buy mines after the market gives up on them, then run them with software and AI.
i asked him how you actually buy a mine, why AI's real bottleneck is metal, and whether he'd hire me for being good at claude code.
nontechnical, episode 3.
00:00 $400M and the CIA's venture fund
02:19 you can just buy a mine
04:41 2 years, $400M, $1.6B
08:58 cold emailing VCs vs. their first check
13:46 when to buy a mine (right after the market gives up)
19:54 every mining truck is a robot without a brain
25:08 everything human-made is grown or mined
26:15 the cheapest AI company wins
28:31 AI's real bottleneck is metal
30:55 america doesn't have enough miners
33:27 space mining and asteroids
43:13 how a $1.6B founder hires
46:17 would he hire me for claude code?
48:43 "slop cannon"
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
“The next big thing will start out looking like a toy.” -Chris Dixon, 2010
Chris is an OG American Dynamism investor. An OG VR investor. An OG robotics investor. The OG crypto investor.
Finally, an OG Fund, only for originals.
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
We are proud to lean into native 800VDC datacenters with @VantageDC. The first of many GWs to come.
.@VantageDC just reserved over 1 GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Link, bringing the adoption of 800 VDC power architecture for next-generation AI data centers a step closer.
The @nvidia 800 VDC architecture calls for converting medium-voltage grid power directly to 800 VDC. Heron Link does just that, integrating power conversion, protection, and distribution into a single cabinet.
Our agreement with @VantageDC creates a path to bring this architecture to hyperscale data center campuses.
Read more: heronpower.com/news-stories/…
Huge news. This is how you unlock datacenters as flexible and reliable grid assets. Well done Vantage leading the way.
.@VantageDC just reserved over 1 GW of manufacturing capacity for Heron Link, bringing the adoption of 800 VDC power architecture for next-generation AI data centers a step closer.
The @nvidia 800 VDC architecture calls for converting medium-voltage grid power directly to 800 VDC. Heron Link does just that, integrating power conversion, protection, and distribution into a single cabinet.
Our agreement with @VantageDC creates a path to bring this architecture to hyperscale data center campuses.
Read more: heronpower.com/news-stories/…
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
As I argue in my post below, all large DCs will inevitably end up grid-tied. This is great for both the DC and the grid if done well!
In a new white-paper, @heronpower shows what that architecture looks like, powered by their solid-state platform.
heronpower.com/insight/the-h…
Deploy robots into jobs that are hard and dangerous and market expanding
We’re regularly running multiple robots and multiple missions across multiple geographies.
We need more people to help deploy more robots.
Come build The Ocean Company. New roles posted:
theoceancompany.com/careers
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
Amca: America's engineering company. 🇺🇸💪🚀
Amca has been awarded a contract by the @USArmy, establishing an enterprise-wide partnership with Army Materiel Command for rapid engineering, qualification, and component production.
This is the first partnership of its kind, designed to increase readiness for a priority missile system by re-engineering and improving manufacturability of critical components and subsystems.
We're grateful for the Army’s trust, urgency, and leadership, and look forward to re-engineering American industry together.
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
@AmcaInc is proving it's America's engineering company of the future.
Amca won a first-of-its-kind @USArmy contract built around re-engineering critical parts. These parts face obsolescence, years-long lead times, and missing engineering data. Unfortunately, many of the factories that made them no longer exist.
You can't sustain the Warfighter with today's subcomponent factory base. @jaimalik is putting in real work to restore our national ability to engineer and help solve Warfighter readiness.
Amca has been awarded a contract by the @USArmy, establishing an enterprise-wide partnership with Army Materiel Command for rapid engineering, qualification, and component production.
This is the first partnership of its kind, designed to increase readiness for a priority missile system by re-engineering and improving manufacturability of critical components and subsystems.
We're grateful for the Army’s trust, urgency, and leadership, and look forward to re-engineering American industry together.
Great partnership! Huge for our power electronics industry.
American IP, American manufacturing.
Today, the @DeptofWar's Office of Strategic Capital announced a $1.5 billion conditional loan commitment to Wolfspeed to help strengthen the U.S. supply chain for silicon carbide (SiC), gallium nitride (GaN), and other wide bandgap semiconductor materials.
Combined with private capital, the proposed financing would support domestic production of critical materials and power devices with applications across defense, Super Intelligence, critical infrastructure, and other strategically important sectors.
These technologies are essential to high-performance propulsion, directed energy weapons, drones, electronic warfare systems, radars, and missile defense systems. The financing would also advance U.S. economic security as SiC and GaN are expected to play an increasingly important role in the SI revolution.
war.gov/News/Releases/Releas…
Erin Price-Wright retweeted
.@basepowerco has raised $2.5B to bring affordable, reliable energy to people's homes across America.
They're building a new nationwide power company by rebuilding every layer from scratch.
Three years in:
- Built a home battery factory in 8 months
- Installing 100 batteries a day
- Powering 30,000+ homes
And they're hiring!
Open roles in Austin, TX:
- Head of Firmware
- Backend Engineer (BaseOS)
- Product Engineer
- Electronics Design Engineer
- System Integration Engineer
- Deployment Finance & BizOps
(Bay Area office opening soon, too.)
More roles and the full interview with Head of Software @JaredMGreene on a16z Jobs: a16zjobs.substack.com/p/base…
