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Why Collide's CTO Left a Billion Dollar Company to Join 12 Employees
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 anxiet...
Why Every Oil & Gas Company Is Getting AI Strategy Wrong (And How to Fix It)
Most companies talk about AI strategy but freeze when it's time to actually implement. Collin McLelland shares how one E&P CEO cut through the noise by focusing on sma...
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1: Why Forward Deployed Engineers Ship When AI Pilots Fail
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 1 turns into a real talk on why forward deployed engineers win where AI pilots stall, with Michael Cortez, John, and Nick Smart swapping w...
2025 Community Year In Review: How Collide Evolved This Year (And What's Next)
Collide basically did its own Spotify Wrapped and the punchline is simple: the community doubled, the conversations got more technical, and the team got way clearer on...
Collide AI 2025 Wrapped Part 2: Scaling AI From Proof of Concept to Production
Catching yourself rereading last year’s VC emails while you’re back in Silicon Valley is a pretty good way to realize how wild the last 12 months have been. Colin, Chu...