Dear Aasshole: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any “list” other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality. Your reckless words put my family in danger. Keep it up and we will debate the facts further in court. @AaronRodgers12
I'm giving away $2,500 to someone for Christmas. 🎄
We closed a $2.5 million raise and are proud to be backed by Chuck Yates, Diamondback Energy, ProFrac, and many other amazing angel investors in the energy industry.
I didn't want to pay some PR agency to promote our fundraise, I'd rather give that money to you to help spread the word!
Just comment on this post "I'm in" and retweet it for a chance to enter. 👇
I'll pick a winner on Dec 18th and send over $2,500!
Listen, @FracSlap is out here saving lives, one road rager at a time. Imagine if that poor fella would have jumped out of his crew cab with his fitted American Fighter TShirt! 😭
I just deescalated a road rage incident where a dude in a lifted dually pickup was screaming at me to pull over.
I told him "you see this cauliflower ear? This isn't what you want to do."
Then he stopped it.
@j_mclelland91 was with me and told me A) that I should have stopped engaging and B) I'm a douche for saying that.
But I think I taught this man a peaceful and valuable lesson without violence and hopefully he will internalize that and be better moving forward.
I'm like the Gandhi of Houston. 🧘♂️
Only @KeithOlbermann would slander a multiple time NCAA and SEC Champion as “mediocre” for not wanting to compete against biological males. That doesn’t make you a “transphobe”, if anything, it makes you practical.
PS: @Riley_Gaines_ manufactured a controversy over a nonexistent issue to cover up her swimming mediocrity (even for the SEC) and a raging transphobe (I originally wrote "homophobe" by mistake - my apology)
Must read, every word of it!
True story, I wouldn’t have ventured out to start my own gym without watching Collin quit his job and hustle to build Digital Wildcatters!
@FracSlap out here providing inspiration to all industries! 🙏🏽
I skipped college because I wanted to become the biggest Oilman to come out of Texas.
Tall order.
In high school, I was fascinated by building internet businesses, but when I graduated in 2008, the Great Recession was in full swing and I didn't really know what to do in life.
Growing up in West Texas, I looked around me and saw a bunch of rich people in Oil and Gas.
"Maybe I should learn this business"
I got a job roughnecking and drilling oil wells and I became obsessed.
Physically, I'm doing bottom-of-the-barrel manual labor, but mentally I could not stop running the economics.
How much does a rig cost? What do we charge to drill? This well makes how much oil?
After a couple of years of learning how to drill and frac, I start my first company at 21 years old with a friend.
Water hauling trucks.
Not a heavily defensible business, but it was easy to understand and I think I had the right contacts to pull it off.
One problem though, we didn't have any capital.
But we did have a client and I had a friend who owned trucks.
Perfect arbitrage opportunity.
I charge the oil company $85/hr, I pay my friend $83/hr to use his trucks.
This allows me to start proving revenue so that I can get a bank to finance some new trucks of our own.
Ran into another problem though.
Instead of paying my friend's invoices for the trucks, my partner was using the money to flip cocaine.
Gotta love oilfield hands.
I had to pay a substantial amount of money (for me at the time) to cover all the hours for my friend's truck and shut down the operation.
I take my lesson learned and keep grinding 100 hour weeks on frac jobs making oil in the Shale Revolution.
By 2014, I take a job managing drilling and completions projects in the western hemisphere.
I'm drilling wells on ships in the middle of the ocean, I'm with the polar bears on the North Slope of Alaska, I'm on wells in the middle of a golf course in Los Angeles.
I got to see it all.
But in all of this, what caught my attention was the rise of Instagram and its creators.
I thought, "I can create content"
I start operating these cringe business motivation accounts and build over 300,000 followers while selling ads to Gary Vaynerchuk and other consumer brands.
I end up selling the accounts for some Bitcoin and walk away with a new understanding of social media.
By 2018, I'm tired of having a job, I want to go build.
But I have a wife and 3 kids, I can't just quit my job.
My wife said "Quit being a pussy and do it"
So I did it.
No plan for a company, no income from either of us.
Just had faith in ourselves that we'd figure it out along the way.
First thing I did was round up some friends to buy stripper oil wells in Oklahoma.
"This is how I'm going to start building my oil dynasty"
Yea, fuck that.
Found out that managing low-budget stripper wells is a grind and my time was much better spent doing other things.
But during all of this, I have a realization—no one is creating new-age content in energy, one of the largest industries in the world.
This coincided with millennials starting to take over the industry who were building exciting new SaaS based solutions for oil and gas companies and digitizing a traditional industry.
But there wasn't a single place on the internet to go learn about these companies.
So we start a podcast called "Oil and Gas Startups" to highlight these technological solutions and tell the stories of the people who were building them.
Oil and Gas startups is extremely niche, I don't know if anyone is going to listen to this.
But at a minimum, we'll get some cool people in the room and make friends along the way.
Turns out, people were interested in this podcast—very interested.
We parlay this into live events called "Energy Tech Nights" to bring people together.
Beer, pizza, and tech.
So simple, but the industry never had anything like it.
Fast forward a few years to today, I believe that the Digital Wildcatters community is one of the most important networks ever built—The next generation of energy professionals from all backgrounds working together to power the world.
I don't know if I'll ever fulfill my 19-year-old self's vision of becoming the biggest oilman in Texas, but I do know that I have enjoyed the hell out doing what I do and letting my curiosity guide the way.
Onward 🫡
@superCalo You have to understand, the LED blue light can make your retinas focus more on the color of the shorts than on the color of the persons gloves, for this reason inconsequential lighting should be used in these atmospheres.
Look, I’m a capitalist.
I have no problem with companies making reasonable profits.
But not absurd levels on the backs of working families and seniors – it's about basic fairness.
Great job, Verizon. You somehow took the two most unsufferable people on the planet, and cast them in the same commercial. This will do wonders for business... kudos!