Jared Baron and The Metals Company’s 2027 Vision: Ocean Nodules as America’s Answer to China
From dairy farm to deep sea: how Jared Baron and The Metals Company aim to reshape global resource supply chains.

Jared Baron did not begin life in the boardrooms of London or the laboratories of California. He was raised on a dairy farm in Queensland, Australia, and built a career that cut across industries—from media to batteries to mining. Today, as Chairman and CEO of The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC), Baron finds himself at the frontier of one of the most ambitious industrial experiments of the century: harvesting polymetallic nodules from the deep ocean floor. Appearing recently on The Shawn Ryan Show, Baron described his mission in terms both pragmatic and visionary. “If it ain’t growing, it’s mined,” he told the audience, framing his case for why the ocean, which covers seventy percent of Earth, must become part of the global resource equation.
For Baron, the story is not just about mining—it is about geopolitics, environmental responsibility, and industrial rebirth. He openly acknowledges the controversies that have dogged the sector, particularly the collapse of Nautilus Minerals, an early deep sea mining company he backed financially two decades ago. “Getting a new industry started is tough,” he reflected. But where Nautilus faltered, The Metals Company believes it has found scale, timing, and political alignment on its side.
