The Future is Metal - Mariana Minerals | a16z American Dynamism

Everything that we interact with [music] in the physical world is either mined or it's grown. And unfortunately, we can't grow [music] metals. Whether it's a laptop, whether it's a cell phone, whether it's an AI data center, whether it is a robot, whether it's a battery, whether it's a car, all of that stuff comes from the ground.The entire modern economy is underpinned on metals and minerals. [music] 50 years ago, 60 years ago, we made a lot of these metals in the US. We were one of the largest producers o ...