{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Chuck Yates Got A Job","title":"Why Collide's CTO Left a Billion Dollar Company to Join 12 Employees","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/d3cc1103\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3527,"description":"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.\nClick here to watch a video of this episode.\n00:00 - How Jimmy's dad helped recruit the CTO\n03:25 - The recruiter pitch that almost missed the mark\n05:27 - Why a 2.5 hour Sunday call changed everything\n08:21 - Learning AI by building it in the hardest vertical\n11:27 - The most important hire Colin ever made\n13:09 - Recruiting AWS, Microsoft, and Candy Crush engineers\n17:03 - From miniature model to actual infrastructure\n19:15 - Why clients ask \"what's your software stack?\"\n21:14 - The upside-down map incident on day three\n24:02 - What startup anxiety actually feels like\n27:05 - Why shiny object syndrome kills execution\n29:07 - Six months to a month to weeks to days\n31:22 - Oil and gas people are the best on the planet\n35:25 - Controlling drill bits thousands of miles away\n37:33 - The rubber meets the road next three months\n40:15 - Building platforms clients can build on\n43:00 - Principal-to-principal sales versus employee sales\n47:13 - Team breakdown: the superstars running 100x faster\n51:20 - Jazz and the haunted Skirvin Hotel story\n53:32 - Training models on petroleum engineering exams\n55:36 - Zero critical vulnerabilities on penetration testing\nhttps://twitter.com/collide_io\nhttps://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io...","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}