{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Chuck Yates Got A Job","title":"A 50-Year-Old Pipe Support Company Where 100 Employees Now Build Their Own AI Agents","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/58c2eb9e\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3680,"description":"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 their own AI agents and a welding cobot just got unveiled to 450 people on the shop floor. Cut cables in West Texas, new collar jobs, Pope Leo, and why the guy with the pickup truck had every reason to be nervous.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n00:00 The house fire\n05:07 A cryptic DM about dad's company\n06:15 What Piping Technology makes\n09:56 Family business and the second chair\n12:43 Every tech wave since dial up\n17:02 Getting AI to actually spread\n20:14 The guy who cut the cables\n24:04 Unveiling a welding cobot\n26:16 Pope Leo and new collar work\n35:32 Agents on the quoting desk\n42:22 The CIO problem\n44:22 Letting Claude psychoanalyze you\n49:04 Guardrails and permissions\n53:11 Five years out\n57:56 Intention and action\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_ai\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io\nhttps://www.facebook.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.instagram.com/collide.io\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@collide_io\nhttps://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/c5WQufo5wbt5DUoayihGmjPfi-6mpIXlFv-B8NwxUXk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81ODIw/NmQyYjMwOTI3MTcw/NjU3ZTI2NDViYTlk/M2NkNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}