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Litinsky predicts US taxpayers will profit from DoD deal in five years
“It would not surprise me if when we, five years from now, hopefully we'll do this conference, and Chamath, you'll say to me, Jim, you know, I remember that deal that was the first of its kind that you did with DoD, And the government made money on you. The tax…”
Litinsky: Rare earth supply chain outside MP Materials is domiciled in China
“So outside of us, this entire supply chain is essentially domiciled in China.”
Litinsky: MP Materials is 100% of the US rare earth industry
“We're a hundred percent of the American industry.”
Litinsky: MP Materials building 10x capacity facility for DoD and Apple
“So we're expanding our facility in Texas for Apple. I'll talk about that in a second, but we're then going to build a Tenex facility to Tenex our capacity with DoD as our a hundred percent offtake partner customer and business partner, because we'll be splitti…”
Chamath: Portfolio company secured a General Motors take-or-pay supply agreement
“MP has a deal with General Motors, one of my businesses that makes LFP cathode, same deal with GM.”
Litinsky: MP Materials needs thousands of new hires for Apple and DOD
“We have 850 employees today at MP. We're gonna hire, when we include what we're building out for Apple coupled with what we're building with DOD, we're gonna need a couple thousand more people easily, not to mention the construction jobs.”