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Key Takeaways Build for decades, not funding rounds, and value compounds through patience.
Long-term leadership beats speed when infrastructure and materials are the mission.
If you had told me back in high school that I’d one day commit my life to rebuilding American industrial capacity, I wouldn’t have believed you, but I can still remember the day my economics teacher, Mr. Thorn, explained a principle that changed how I see the world: demand grows exponentially, while supply, especially for physical materials, grows linearly.
That lesson hit me harder than anything else I learned in school. It made me realize that as the global population grows and technology accelerates, the pressure on real-world materials will only intensify. And nowhere is that more evident than in copper, the metal that powers modern civilization.
It was clear to me even as a teenager that the future would belong to those who build for the long term, not for the next funding round. Now, decades later, my company is focused on building infrastructure that will benefit the next generation.
If you follow the news, you’ve likely heard about the global race to secure critical minerals. In our case, we’re focused on copper, the mineral that helps power everything from our cellphones to our electric vehicles, AI data centers and national defense systems.
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