Chuck Yates Got A Job

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Welcome to Chuck Yates Got A Job with Chuck Yates. You've now found your dysfunctional life coach, the Investor Formerly known as Prominent Businessman Chuck Yates. What's not to learn from the self-p... more

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June 25, 2026 The Stablecoin Backed by Real Barrels of Oil
What if you could stash a barrel of oil in a digital bank account and drop it in your kid's Christmas stocking? That's the wild idea Wil Harris of Energy Substantiation is chasing, building the stablecoin of oil. He breaks down how WTI coins work, why nobody had ever banked a barrel before, and Chuck puts on his critical investor hat to try and blow the whole thing up.
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0:00 - The barrel of oil coin on Chuck's dresser
2:08 - How Wil ended up bridging crypto and oil
4:03 - What a stablecoin actually is, explained for mom
10:05 - The minus 37 dollar day, USO, and True Tracker
12:21 - Banking a barrel: minting, redeeming, the bank of oil
19:25 - Critical investor mode: what protects your money
24:08 - Credit reviews, unencumbered barrels, and ABLs
28:50 - The reverse Dutch auction and the trading platform
32:16 - A brand new form of capital for producers
36:06 - Crypto adoption, 700 million accounts, and the Yeezys story
38:34 - Selling the company, line fill, and credit over time
45:59 - Who they want to hear from and WTI as the world standard
48:34 - Still early days and how to reach them
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June 02, 2026 The Candy Crush Guy Now Secures Oil and Gas AI
Running data security for Candy Crush during a pandemic turns out to be solid training for almost anything, and Sam Texas brought that hard earned paranoia to Collide. From flipping thrift store suits on eBay to keeping the world's biggest mobile game alive from Sweden, his road to oil and gas was anything but typical. He breaks down defense in depth, SOC2, and why locking down AI inside a company becomes its own arms race once the machines start fighting the machines.
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00:00 The Candy Crush guy comes to Houston
02:07 eBay suits, semiconductors, and a detour to Sweden
04:50 How a LinkedIn DM turned into Collide
07:13 Going all in on Claude and chasing SOC2
09:40 Security explained, Fort Knox style
12:42 What's set in stone, what's in flux
14:29 The AI versus AI arms race
15:04 The Mythos model and real reasons to pay attention
16:32 Big brother advice for adopting AI safely
20:00 Data exfiltration and what keeps him up at night
22:30 The next 30 to 60 days at Collide
24:39 Securing the bleeding edge for an industry that skipped SaaS
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May 19, 2026 Can AI Predict the Next Oilfield Disaster?
Cority has been quietly building environmental, health, and safety software for forty years, and Amanda Smith runs the strategy keeping up with AI that changes every six months. She and Chuck get into why a system of record beats raw AI on life or death calls, how a 600 page permit went from months to minutes, the stat that 95 percent of employees are already using shadow AI, and the PDF problem that has every energy company stuck.
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0:00 The Cority story and 40 years in EHS software
2:30 How the software shows up on a rig and in the office
5:45 The SaaS apocalypse question and why context beats raw AI
9:30 Amanda's family mining history and why this work is personal
11:00 Recruiting AI talent to Houston and the six month change cycle
15:00 Shiny objects versus solving real problems
18:00 Auditability, HIPAA, and the black box problem
19:30 Where Collide is heading as an operating system
23:00 Employee resistance and the friction point playbook
27:30 Six hundred page permits, 3000 filings, zero mistakes
30:00 Agentic workflows as the new source of record
34:30 Correlation, causation, and the shale revolution lesson
37:30 The PDF problem and using 2 percent of energy data
41:30 Learning to drive as the AI adoption analogy
43:00 What we are not talking about today that we will be in five years
48:30 Ninety-five percent of employees are using shadow AI
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March 18, 2026 90% of the Oil Is Still in the Ground. This Is the Technology Built to Get It.
Jon Slominski, Founding AI Engineer at Collide, sits down with Chuck to break down what it actually takes to build AI that works inside a real oil and gas enterprise. From agent hierarchies that read and write across legacy systems, to a mapping interface that lets you chat your GIS data into shape, Jon shares what he's building, what wakes him up at 4am, and why the biggest unlock might still be the 90% of oil we haven't touched yet.
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0:00 - Intro and Jon's background
1:30 - How Collide has evolved since Jon joined
4:00 - Agent hierarchy explained
6:10 - The hard part: taking AI from POC to production
9:30 - Auditable search and why citations matter
10:00 - What Jon is most proud of
11:20 - The mapping interface coming to Collide
13:50 - What keeps Jon up at night
16:50 - Using AI to unlock the 90% of oil still in the ground
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March 11, 2026 The Unsolved Problem Hiding Inside Every Oil and Gas Deal
Most energy companies buying billion dollar assets get handed a stack of hard drives and have zero clue what's on them. Clay Branch, Technical Staff at Collide, joins Chuck to break down the unglamorous but absolutely critical work of document categorization, data extraction, and why clean reliable data is the real foundation of any AI strategy in oil and gas.
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0:00 Clay's background and how he ended up at Collide
1:34 The reality of energy data: hard drives, banker's boxes, and chaos
4:47 Building document categorization tools from scratch
8:52 Handling duplicates and the shared drive problem
13:57 Why data reliability is the foundation of AI
17:21 The last mile: getting from 80% to 100% accuracy
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February 25, 2026 TCU Sent College Kids Into the Permian Basin. Here's What Happened.
TCU's energy internship program is back for round two and the results are kind of wild. What started as a summer experiment with business students who knew zero about oil and gas turned into kids giving no-notes presentations on legacy well economics in just ten weeks. Nikki Morris, Executive Director of TCU's Ralph Lowe Energy Institute, and Ryan Haggerty, Owner at RHR Oil and Gas, break down the field trips from Diamondback frac sites to 70 year old vertical wells, how AI is changing the game for young talent but still can't replace the crusty old timer making the final call, and why the industry's biggest problem with 150,000 orphan wells in Texas might need a proactive solution before Washington forces one.
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0:00 Intro and field trip recap from Riot's bitcoin mining site to Corsicana
2:45 First impressions of the oilfield and the stiletto boots story
5:22 How students connected the dots seeing wells in person
8:21 Why basic energy education is missing from schools
10:30 Overview of TCU's energy programs and student workers
13:00 How Ryan and Nikki connected through the Fort Worth chamber
17:32 AI vs tribal knowledge and the great crew change debate
19:07 The HEB data scientist story that shocked an operator
21:48 Ryan's legacy well project and what the students discovered
25:14 The pyramid of problem solving and where AI fits
28:40 What's next for the students and the upcoming TCU Energy Symposium
30:52 Nuclear energy gaining traction with SMRs and molten salt reactors
34:02 The orphan well crisis and incentivizing proactive plugging
37:28 Where to find Ryan and Nikki
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February 11, 2026 Why Collide's CTO Left a Billion Dollar Company to Join 12 Employees
Canisius Rozario left a multi-billion dollar company managing 300 people to become employee number 12 at Collide. The CTO role at a seed-stage startup came with anxiety, stress, and constant noise about every new AI tool dropping daily. But it also came with the opportunity to build something real in an industry that solves actual problems, where bad answers don't just cost money, they kill people. Chuck and Canisius break down what it actually takes to go from a ChatGPT wrapper to enterprise-grade AI infrastructure, why oil and gas professionals are more impressive than tech bros, and how they're building models trained specifically on petroleum engineering exams. The team went from six months to build a pilot to days, and they're just getting started.
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00:00 - How Jimmy's dad helped recruit the CTO
03:25 - The recruiter pitch that almost missed the mark
05:27 - Why a 2.5 hour Sunday call changed everything
08:21 - Learning AI by building it in the hardest vertical
11:27 - The most important hire Colin ever made
13:09 - Recruiting AWS, Microsoft, and Candy Crush engineers
17:03 - From miniature model to actual infrastructure
19:15 - Why clients ask "what's your software stack?"
21:14 - The upside-down map incident on day three
24:02 - What startup anxiety actually feels like
27:05 - Why shiny object syndrome kills execution
29:07 - Six months to a month to weeks to days
31:22 - Oil and gas people are the best on the planet
35:25 - Controlling drill bits thousands of miles away
37:33 - The rubber meets the road next three months
40:15 - Building platforms clients can build on
43:00 - Principal-to-principal sales versus employee sales
47:13 - Team breakdown: the superstars running 100x faster
51:20 - Jazz and the haunted Skirvin Hotel story
53:32 - Training models on petroleum engineering exams
55:36 - Zero critical vulnerabilities on penetration testing
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January 28, 2026 Why Every Oil & Gas Company Is Getting AI Strategy Wrong (And How to Fix It)
Most companies talk about AI strategy but freeze when it's time to actually implement. Collin McLelland shares how one E&P CEO cut through the noise by focusing on small, tangible wins—like automating regulatory filings that saved 1200 engineering hours. The real insight? Stop chasing sexy AI projects and start with workflows that deliver immediate ROI. Once teams see quick wins, adoption spreads fast and sophistication builds naturally.
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00:00 - The AI strategy question every executive is asking
00:45 - Why big companies struggle to start with AI
01:39 - Start small: the $1M savings approach
02:20 - Real example: automating regulatory filings saves 1200 hours
02:39 - Why companies chase sexy AI projects instead of practical wins
03:07 - How sophistication builds through successive applications
03:58 - Reimagining workflows: focus on outputs, not processes
04:58 - The foundation: get your data house in order first
05:50 - Pattern recognition: where the real home runs happen
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December 23, 2025 Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 2: Scaling AI From Proof of Concept to Production
Catching yourself rereading last year’s VC emails while you’re back in Silicon Valley is a pretty good way to realize how wild the last 12 months have been. Colin, Chuck, Canisius, and Todd break down how Collide AI is turning fast POCs into real production workflows, why change management is the actual moat, and how a stacked forward deployed team plus community driven distribution is setting up 2026 to be the year everything scales.
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00:00 Product market fit jokes and kickoff
00:28 VC email flashback and velocity
01:29 Forward deployed model and AI first mindset
02:18 Sam Texas and AI coding shift
04:04 What AI first actually means
06:18 Not just podcast bros anymore
07:00 AI breaks silos across the business
08:21 Doglegs example and incentives
09:57 Change management is the advantage
10:18 Client story and regulatory filings win
12:42 Selling outcomes not hype
13:36 Building the FTE team and faster delivery
16:24 AI strategy as workflow ROI first
18:26 Grok as a thought partner and GPU cluster
20:15 Shale revolution mindset parallel
22:29 Recruiting, software DNA, and stacked team
26:16 Content and community as a recruiting engine
29:11 Distribution flywheel in the real world
30:22 Team distribution vs product debate
32:32 2026 is the scaling year
34:02 Community platform finally clicking
36:09 Building the community platform the hard way
39:20 Scaling clients, POCs, and production
41:09 Why mom and pops matter
41:55 Energy demand tailwinds and macro impact
44:44 One word answer for next year: scale
45:20 POC to production cycle time focus
47:12 Scaling tech, sales, and financing
49:45 Moving at AI speed story
50:14 Raising capital and building serious software
52:56 Collide as the operator layer vision
54:02 Gratitude and community over everything
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December 23, 2025 Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1: Why Forward Deployed Engineers Ship When AI Pilots Fail
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1 turns into a real talk on why forward deployed engineers win where AI pilots stall, with Michael Cortez, John, and Nick Smart swapping war stories from completions, geophysics, and the startup trenches while they map out how Collide Enterprise moves past basic chat tools into search plus workflows that actually hold up in the real world.
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00:00 Setup and intros
00:45 Michael’s path and joining Collide
01:59 Nick’s background and role shift
03:08 Collide Enterprise vs community
04:16 Search, RAG, and workflow evolution
06:31 Why out of the box AI falls short
08:41 Time savings and real work focus
11:39 Single source of truth vision
13:16 Small teams scaling bigger assets
17:18 AI adoption vs past tech hype
19:26 Digital transformation missing link
20:20 Why FDEs make pilots work
23:36 Biggest learnings this year
31:52 What’s next in 2026
38:57 Bold predictions for 3 to 5 years
47:37 Fine tuned models teaser and wrap
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