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I Started an AI Company in My 50s. Here’s What I Learned | Chuck Yates Keynote
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- Chuck Yates Got A Job
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- Sep 4, 2026
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- 1522
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Summary
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 problem was never the tech. It is permission, labels, and an industry that named its flagship product West Texas Intermediate. Plus a serious ask about being better people on the way there. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 00:00 End of the world as we know it 03:00 Bobby Joe and the 1982 church dance 07:46 Labels matter 11:54 Why energy is bad at marketing 14:41 Building distribution before a product 16:22 The clock reset 18:58 James Broach 21:18 A weekend of Claude code and David Lee Roth 23:48 Houston, freaking Texas https://twitter.com/collide_ai https://www.tiktok.com/@collide.io https://www.facebook.com/collide.io https://www.instagram.com/collide.io https://www.youtube.com/@collide_io https://bsky.app/profile/collide-ai.bsky.social https://www.linkedin.com/company/collideai