Chile

“Chile, as I mentioned, is the world's, one of the world's largest lithium producers and the world's largest brine producer. Australia is the world's largest lithium producer because of its large spodumine or hard rock mines.”

“China is, is the world's largest processor for many of these types of lithium. So we were talking about Australia and Chile earlier in the conversation. I mean, much of that lithium is, is shipped to mainland China where it's processed into a form that can be …”

“99.9% of the world's lithium reserves are in the hands of just four countries, China, Chile, Argentina, Australia, none of which are the United States.”

“His great-great-grandfather was one of the first people in France to ever import bat guano, which is just bat shit. He's, his great-great-grandfather, I think, in 1832, is, was the first person in France to import bat shit from Chile and use it as fertilizer i…”

“So, 80% of lithium comes from Australia, China, and Chile, where 70% of cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo.”

“I think that the biggest winners, though, of the other countries that are involved, Australia and Korea and Chile are the, are by far the biggest winners. They all have free trade agreements with the U.S. And are going to come out looking very good from this.”

“I think you run a little bit into more of the liquidity constraints where you see the businesses just building for Chile or building just for Colombia. Those tend to have much much harder exit opportunity. But when you really get Brazil and Mexico, you'll find…”

“Chilean laws and actually like South American laws are very like employer, sorry, employee focused. So it's actually very, very hard to have them in your payroll. Like it's going to be expensive.”

“Twenty-nineteen, we're selling 2.5 million. Twenty-twenty, we sold ten million. Twenty-twenty-one, we sold like, almost thirteen million. And twenty-twenty-two, we sold- One, three? Yeah, 13. And then 20, 22, we sold six million.”

“Few people know that between Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile, that's 60% of the world's lithium. I mean, that's, Bolivia alone is one-third of the world's lithium.”

“The main producer of copper is chile. And I'm Chilean, and we're based in Chile as a company. And Chile produces roughly one-third of the copper. Peru produces another 10% of the copper. And the rest of the Americas, that's US, Canada, Mexico, produce roughly …”

“I think that the biggest winners, though, of the other countries that are involved, Australia and Korea and Chile are the, are by far the biggest winners. They all have free trade agreements with the U.S. And are going to come out looking very good from this.”

“Today's leftists in America are not the leftists from a generation ago. Again, you learn from your father's mistakes. In Latin America, you talk to guys in Chile and in Colombia and in Mexico, they've learned from Chavez. They've learned from Argentina. They d…”

“So there will be a big push towards hydroxide processing probably in Australia, in Chile but also in the U.S. And Canada.”

“And here we participated out of our opportunity fund as well. We had invested in the company. It had like a small kitchen with seven employees in Chile several years ago when we led the Series A. So excited that we managed to invest in several rounds out of ou…”

“We have one customer, one big customer that, that is Larrain Vial. Usually our customers are brokerage houses or stock exchanges or banks. We have about six customers here in Chile.”

“Today it's still our best market, but we have 1400 salons.”

“Chile, it's a market we are already on a break even.”

“He's also trying to figure out whether the big bang took place. And so I'm interested in that too. We talk about that. They've got this big operation going on in Chile where they're trying to figure that kind of stuff out.”

“Because I had to catch up with everything because the education in Chile is not great. Just for comparison, you learn, kind of, algebra, like, in your senior year.”

“And we have a lot of trade treaties, but there's only Five countries that you need to be aware of from the immigration setting because those are the treaties that provide for a special visa. So the countries are Canada, Mexico, Australia, Singapore, and Chile.…”

“The size of the hedge fund was three hundred millions, and when I left it was 2.5 billion, so we had a really good ride there.”