Lithium Confidential($19.99Value)

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Lithium Confidential blends insider history with a personal story of international business, corporate politics, risk-taking, and reinvention. Written with candor, humor, and hard-earned perspective, Lithium Confidential is both a personal journey and a rare insider account of the rise of the global lithium-ion battery supply chain. Joe Lowry takes readers from lithium's early days as an obscure industrial material to the emergence of Chinese lithium billionaires from humble beginnings who he worked with long before they found success. Through corporate politics, international negotiations, and cultural clashes across Asia, Lowry provides a firsthand look at how China rose from obscurity to global lithium dominance while Japan faltered and the United States largely slept through the transformation. At the same time, Lithium Confidential is the story of a North Carolina family whose lives were reshaped by years spent living abroad in Japan and China. Behind the business deals and geopolitical shifts is a story of risk-taking, reinvention, and the challenges of raising a family far from home as Asia reshaped the global economy. "Lithium Confidential is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of the lithium industry and the career of one of its most respected and insightful figures, 'Mr. Lithium' Joe Lowry. Joe gives readers a front row seat to his 23-year career with a major producer during the formative years of the modern lithium industry, his years as an advisor to leading companies across the lithium-ion battery supply chain, the creation of the Global Lithium Podcast, and his perspective on the future of this dynamic industry. In Lithium Confidential, he skillfully weaves together his personal and professional journeys into an engrossing and highly readable memoir." - Chris Berry - President, House Mountain Partners