Sep 4, 202625 min
Five lessons pulled from a junior high dance floor, a Wall Street Journal firing, and a weekend in Battle Creek learning to code. Chuck Yates, co-founder of Collide, takes the Ion stage and argues that energy's AI...
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Chuck Yates Got A Job
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About this Podcast:
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-proclaimed Galactic Viceroy, who was publicly canned from a prominent private equity firm, has had enough therapy to quote Brene Brown chapter and verse and spends most days embarrassing himself on Energy Finance Twitter as @Nimblephatty.
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What is Chuck Yates Got A Job about?
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 has Chuck Yates Got A Job covered recently?
Recent episodes include "I Started an AI Company in My 50s. Here’s What I Learned | Chuck Yates Keynote" (4 September 2026, 25 minutes), "A 50-Year-Old Pipe Support Company Where 100 Employees Now Build Their Own AI Agents" (28 August 2026, 61 minutes), and "Why Oil Companies Leave So Much Money Downhole" (10 July 2026, 45 minutes).
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Chuck Yates Got A Job publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 39 minutes across 243 episodes.
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Who should pitch Chuck Yates Got A Job?
The strongest fits for Chuck Yates Got A Job are Oil & Gas Extraction. Chuck Yates Got A Job has a business audience.
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Recent episodes
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- Aug 28, 20261h 1m
A garage full of Ethereum rigs once set a house on fire, and that was only the warmup. Rakesh Agrawal and Lloyd Kirchner run Piping Technology & Products, a 50 year old Houston manufacturer where 100 employees now build...
Episode #251
Why Oil Companies Leave So Much Money Downhole
Jul 10, 202645 minEverybody chases the drill bit, but the real money can hide in wells that have produced for years. D.J. Snyder left drilling and completions to chase what nobody wanted to touch: production. His company Vannevar builds...
- Jun 30, 202651 min
You can own the dirt under someone's ranch without ever setting foot on it and still collect a check every month while an oil company does all the work. Karl Brensike of Harvest Mineral & Royalty Partners calls minerals...
Episode #249
The Stablecoin Backed by Real Barrels of Oil
Jun 25, 202651 minWhat 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...
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Episode #248
The Candy Crush Guy Now Secures Oil and Gas AI
Jun 2, 202628 minRunning 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...
Episode #247
Can AI Predict the Next Oilfield Disaster?
May 19, 202653 minCority 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...
- Mar 18, 202620 min
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...
- Mar 11, 202619 min
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...
- Feb 25, 202638 min
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...
- Feb 11, 202659 min
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...
- Jan 28, 20266 min
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...
- Dec 23, 202555 min
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...
- Dec 23, 202548 min
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...
- Dec 23, 202543 min
Collide basically did its own Spotify Wrapped and the punchline is simple: the community doubled, the conversations got more technical, and the team got way clearer on what Collide is now and where it’s headed. Crystal...
- Dec 16, 202538 min
H2S gets the Hollywood treatment, and let’s just say reality has some thoughts. The crew tears into how *Landman* portrays one of the oilfield’s most dangerous hazards, separating legit risks from TV-level exaggeration...
- Nov 26, 202538 min
Chuck, Matt, Gates, and Boar got together to unpack “Landman” Season 2, Episode 2, and it turned into the perfect mix of oilfield therapy session and comedy hour, calling out the ridiculous drilling logic, roasting...
Episode #236
Cloud vs On-Prem Compute & Data Security with Bill Arend (Microsoft) & Canisius Rozario (Collide)
Nov 25, 202535 minBill Arend from Microsoft and Canisius Rozario, CTO of Collide, talk through the messy reality of deploying AI in oil and gas—why most E&Ps have gone all-in on cloud, how data security actually works when you're not...
- Nov 25, 202541 min
Bobby Neelon and John Kalfayan from Collide break down the messy reality of getting data ready for RAG, why PDFs are dumpster fires for unstructured data, how extraction changes depending on whether you're dealing with...
Episode #235
Real world AI use cases with Todd Bush (Collide)
Nov 25, 202532 minTodd Bush, COO of Collide, walks through real-world AI use cases beyond the hype—how operators are automating routine tasks like production alerts, capturing tribal knowledge before the crew change wipes it out, and...
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