Collin McLelland 🏴☠️
@FracSlap
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I used to roughneck in the oilfield. Now I build startups in the energy industry. MMA/Grappling
Houston, TX
Joined September 2017
Announcing our $5 million seed, led by Mercury Fund, to bring AI to the energy industry. It's time to power the world.
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Learn something today 👇
@wbridgefa @Tejanobrown @FracSlap Joules Thompson effect. Natural gas acts as an ideal gas. V1p1/t1 =v2p2/t2. All else held constant and pressure drops and volume is held constant, temperature must drop. You can have freezing cold pipes in the middle of the Texas heat.
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now it's time to discuss natural gas cooled refrigerators
Everything that uses energy is already a space heater. Even you.
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I only have 29 years left to live and maximize my effort to solve the world's energy crisis. Then I'm going to Alaska to live with the bears, I want to bleed out in the cold and feel something before I go to the other side.
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I have 2 passes to the Daniel energy BBQ, drop a comment if you want to go.
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What does it actually take to build and lead in oil & gas? From building Parsley Energy’s engineering team and leading the company as CEO, to founding @greenlakeenergy and investing as a Venture Partner at NGP, @MattG_PE experience spans every level of oil and gas operations.
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Most VCs are thinly-veiled private equity firms larping as venture capital. Who cares about valuations at pre-seed? Startups are a binary game, it either works or it doesn't. If it does work, any premium you paid on valuation is likely worth it. I'd be willing to bet that
A founder I’m close said that it’s a bad signal in the market if I don’t invest in his pre-seed round. But the price is way too high and he’s willing to drop the valuation a bit but not enough. Great founder, super interesting concept but math is math ☹️
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I looked up Uchi and they're beefing via google maps?? Lmao
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our forward deployed engineers will be at the wellhead sleeping on location in a fifth wheel while shipping product within tight feedback loops from field hands.
You‘re forward deployed if your bed shakes from the missiles. You work on a documentation app.
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Kramatorsk Odyssey: Last Train to Kramatorsk Central As the Russian’s advance on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, train services in and out of Kramatorsk have been suspended. For many Ukrainians, the railway is more than a means of transport — it’s a vital link connecting
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Billionaire oilman Bryan Sheffield has some thoughts on Collide 👀
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Energy is the most important thing you can be working on. Everything is downstream of energy. Nothing else matters if we don't solve for abundant energy.
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160lb bulgarians if you want to put some hair on your chest
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This is probably the only podcast where I've told my life story from roughnecking in the oilfield to building the AI platform for the energy industry. I appreciate Rory giving me a medium to do that, I'll drop the link in the comments.
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Some of you noticed that our Github was down this morning. Here's why.
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Imagine being as sick as that guy
Just saw a guy wearing a collide hoodie on a plane back to Houston. @FracSlap @nimblephatty
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This may be the most based thing I've ever heard. Someone needs to introduce me to Alex Karp
Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani: “The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable, and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession” “I think that annoys the fuck out of these people”
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