PERSON DIRECTORY
Erin Price-Wright
Erin Price-Wright appears in 5 indexed conversations across The a16z Show. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
The Founders Who Left Tesla to Rebuild America | a16z
Erin Price-WrightTurner CaldwellDrew Baglino
AI’s constraint is increasingly physical: Mariana Minerals targets mines and refineries, while Heron Power applies silicon and software to grid-scale power conversion.Mariana’s software-first operating model spans design through autonomous operation, but projects can take five years to build and another three to five years to reach operating rate; durable permitting, financing, and grid policy remain catalysts for scaling.
America's Energy Problem: We Need A New Grid
Erik TorenbergDavid UlevitchErin Price-WrightRyan McEntush
America’s grid has effectively frozen while demand accelerates, making colocated solar, batteries and flexible compute attractive alternatives to interconnection timelines reaching a decade and transformer backlogs reportedly exceeding 20 years.Texas shows distributed deployment can scale quickly, while nuclear and dispatchable resources remain necessary; the venture-scale opening is grid software for telemetry, control, permitting and coordination, amid severe supply-chain and execution risks.