Collin McLelland 🏴☠️
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I used to work in the oilfield. Now I build startups in the energy industry. CEO @Dwildcatters | MMA/Grappling
Houston, TX
Joined September 2017
Ending this week by announcing that we closed a $2.5 million investment for @DWildcatters. We're running 100 miles per hour down here in Tejas so I'll drop some additionals thoughts and updates below:
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I've never voted in my life, but I will now. That's my President.
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Just discovered this corner of the internet where people in Thailand are strapping a 12 valve Cummins diesel on to a small boat and racing. I have never been more inspired
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Imagine China thinking they can defeat American rednecks.
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I had a 130lb Cane Corso. Raised him from a puppy—expensive dog with champion bloodline, professionally trained for two months on site, amazing temperament and awesome companion to my toddlers. When he was 4, I went to lay with him on the floor and pet him, he bit me in the
I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna cannonball into the pit bull debate. My feelings on dogs are that you shouldn’t own one that you’re incapable of instantly neutralizing. Too many people own dogs they aren’t capable of neutralizing. When I see them in public, I get far away fast.
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Imagine watching your country get hit by a devastating storm, seeing towns be destroyed and people killed. Then deciding to go on strike and bragging about making their lives harder. Every person in that union who supports the strike is a piece of shit.
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@laurenlself I'll defend RFK every time this video comes up. 115lbs on incline is work, most normie guys would struggle.
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Uber vs. Private car at Houston Airport this week:. Uber.-$110.-Waited 20 minutes to be picked up.-Driver didn't take toll road which added 1 hour to my drive (I was pissed).- Rear suspension shot, car vibrating violently for 2 hour drive. Private Driver.-$110.-Showed up 15.
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Must be a coincidence that DefiantLs got suspended after dropping the best tweet I’ve ever seen.
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Local man thinks grocery stores make 30% margin.
@PalmerLuckey 1% margins? Im guessing its more like 30% no?.
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An “oil worker”. That’s a safety guy, I could tell before I looked it up.
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There's a fatal flaw in the logic of Universal Basic Income. You hear "If people don't have to worry about their basic needs, they will be more productive and do the things that they love doing." . Sounds great, but it doesn't track with reality. In 2020, we handed out money.
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This oil boy just bought a Tesla. Happy to support Elon and utilize full self-driving.
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Imagine telling your wife you're afraid to get on a ladder because you make $40/hour and then this guy shows up.
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Being jacked, rich, and launching rockets will get you more tail than any fashion advice from some gay dude on Twitter.
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QUIT MAKING FOUNDERS BILLIONAIRES BEFORE THEIR COMPANY GENERATES REVENUE.
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It’s truly amazing how fast we went from “we’re going to end the oil industry” to “it’s your patriotic duty to produce oil”.
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Pretty bizarre situation of this Lyft catching on fire. I’m driving home from jiu jitsu on the highway, I notice a fire has started underneath the car in front of me. They’re made aware and pull over to the right shoulder, I think they’ll be all good and get out. Except the
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When your product doesn’t work yet but you need a video.
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Used Teslas are so cheap right now it's hard not to buy one. 1) What is the fundamental driver for the prices collapsing?. 2) Would you buy a used Tesla with ~40k miles?
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Doctors who are not using GPT are cooked. I had abdominal pain last week. Spent $85 and two hours at an urgent care just for the doctor to say "I don't know". No effort, critical thinking, or even a suggestion on what the issue could be. Went out to my car and spent 20.
I just had o1 analyze a very specific immune disease for my friend, who happens to be one of the top expert scientists in this field. After I sent him the results, this is his response:. “OMG. I just read it. This is absolutely breathtaking!! This is nuts. This is insanely good!”.
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If this tweet gets 1,000 likes, I’ll drive around Houston giving out $10,000 of gasoline.
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"wHy WoUlD aNyOnE LiVe iN hOuStOn". Because it's dope AF, that's why. Nerds.
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Illegal immigrants right on I-10 in the middle of Houston. That's wild.
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Remember when the Feds shut down the Chinese spy hub in Houston at the beginning of Covid and they burned all of their documents?. Just within walking distance of people like Peter Hotez and the largest medical center in the world. We deserve some more clarity on that.
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Kind of sucks to have your home burn down while some fat gray haired lady bashes you for trying to save it.
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I'm sorry honey, I couldn't save our home from burning because the people on Twitter wouldn't think that's equitable.
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Walked over to this food truck by my office last night. After I ordered I heard the guy go up to the cook and say "dude we sold out all our wings tonight, we made $1,700!". Made me smile, love seeing business owners crush it.
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Sgt. Kendrick Simpo stopped a mass shooting at Houston Galleria. Only had a pistol (shooter had AR-15).No heavy armor.Didn’t wait on backup. "I had in my mind that I was going to get shot. I just had to bear the pain, I knew it was going to hurt”. Respect.
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@SamEversonCle Most culturally diverse city in the United States = amazing people/culture and the best food scene hands down. Also a ton of opportunity.
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If I was the CEO of Centerpoint I'd be giving an absolute clinic in Leadership 101. Gotta be out there in the streets with the linemen. Have the phone out recording yourself talking and giving updates about the local neighborhoods and posting it through the CenterPoint social.
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There is a lot of talk on Twitter about cartels stealing oil in Texas. I see a lot of people saying it's not true, but I'm going to tell you what I've been hearing—because I do believe it's true. 1. I first heard about it last year in a roundtable meeting with Senator Ted.
Word on the street is the Cartel’s are stealing oil now. Had 450BBLS stolen Sunday night. Put camera’s up.
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In fairness to Uber, I just checked the app and it looks like they gave a significant refund since the driver didn’t take the toll roads. But my main issue wasn’t with price, it was definitely the route. That was borderline criminal lol
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The other day @Oilfield_Rando calls me and tells me he's learning python to aid in his government spending research. I told him I'd happily give him our retrieval augmented generation engine to support his cause. They shouldn't have told roughnecks 'learn to code.'.
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@COL_Tavington how are you going to tell me it didn't add an hour? lol. hobby to fulshear via 59/westpark tollway is the quicker route, instead he went up 45 to 1-10, I-10 to 99. In rush hour.
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This made me tear up. How can you not like Dave Portnoy.
This video is 6m 27s long but it’s a Portnoy masterpiece and it deserves your undivided attention. Unbelievable thing he just did for this pizza place. 🫡.
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@Slicklmao @FightMate Lmao it's called grappling, dude. used in literally every MMA fight. Sit your ass down.
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"It's a three hour drive, but atleast it's still in Houston".
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Burning man looks like any oilfield location in Texas and Oklahoma when it rains. A normal Tuesday for oilfield hands is a national emergency for yuppies.
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Oil and gas isn’t dead. Doesn’t matter what you think or what messaging you try to project, the world is reliant on hydrocarbons and it will make up the majority of energy production for the next few decades. Random thoughts ahead:.
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If you want evidence why backing in to parking spots is superior, here it is. Quit being a knuckle dragger and pulling forward into parking spots.
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@trend_sarah I don't care about studies, to be honest. I care about the real life examples at scale that were derived from the ZIRP era.
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I wore a pink t-shirt to the 40 under 40 shoot lol. Fuck the suits.
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I was very critical of Bitcoin in 2017. I was a big Bitcoin Cash boi, was buying into all the hot ICOs, etc. Took me a long time to really understand Bitcoin and understand everything else is noise. A lot of people are going through that same journey right now.
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Many of you have been asking for background on the scammer that is behind @LPWhisperer . His name is Jacob Kostecki. This thread won't be a fully comprehensive dive into Jake as there is simply too much to cover in his past. But I will mainly tell the story from my point of.
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Venezuela military vs. Exxon private contractors. Who you got?.
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It’s crazy that Exxon is hated for producing oil. But Amazon is loved for using that oil to deliver you small packages daily.
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I hired an immigrant from Serbia a couple weeks ago. Guy moved here six years ago not speaking a lick of English. He worked in restaurants while he learned English and how to code. This gave me infinitely more signal on his resourcefulness, work ethic, and potential than.
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What would be the response if an oil CEO said:. "We're going to shut down refineries until you accept higher gasoline prices. I'll cripple you.". Politicians would be up in arms, as they should. It would be extremely un-American and taking advantage of our system of free.
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The tech industry believed that AI would replace blue collar jobs first. It has become very clear that it will replace tech and finance jobs much quicker. They believed that AI could drive trucks, work assembly lines, and drill oil wells, but somehow didn’t make the.
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I can't believe you can see the northern lights over rigs in West Texas. We need to stop climate change now.
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How the safety guy looks at you when you pencil whip the JSA
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There are no sick days in the oilfield. No mental health days. Work from home? Nah, you barely get to spend any time at home. I’m thankful for people out there that show up without complaining and work hard to power the world.
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Maybe we shouldn’t listen to 17-year-old children when developing energy policies.
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I see a lot of oil and gas people complaining about the show 'Landman' not being realistic. This is a classic oil and gas mentality missing the forest for the trees. You wonder why we've 'lost the narrative' and the world hates our industry?. It's because of things like this.
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Somewhere out there is a boomer. He’s not on Twitter. Has been buying storage units all his life. Now he can’t figure out why all of a sudden there are 1,000 shitheads competing with him on deals.
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Blowout on a rig in Arnaudville, Louisiana. Hoping everyone is alright.
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The most underappreciated fighters of climate change are all of the dads walking around the house turning off lights and monitoring the thermostat.
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150,000 miles on my Toyota Tundra and I've never had to make a single mechanical repair. Hands down the best vehicle I've ever owned.
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Climate models are truly frightening. Texas and Florida under water with rising oceans.
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This show straight up used our tweets for material and you can't convince me otherwise.
“Everything should be electric! We don’t need oil and gas!” 🥴🥴🥴
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This makes me want to spend even more money on Twitter.
Elon Musk is melting down on live TV. He just told Disney CEO Bob Iger to “Go Fuck Yourself”!!
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My friends and family were laid off in masses when oil prices went negative. It was just two years ago. I vividly remember the pain and fear. Now those same people and companies are being vilified by the President of the United States. It’s disgusting and weak.
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We should keep banning pipelines like Keystone XL so that we can transport oil by train instead. It’s definitely safer and cleaner for the environment this way.
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I love Javier and his work, but I have seen too much misunderstanding of how oil works on Twitter this week. You can’t simply “boost production”. Here are my thoughts 👇.
@TheFrackingGuy I´m seriously tired of the "I told you so" attitude from the oil industry right now. It´s wrong, and really misreads the landscape. It´s an emergency. Stop whining. Boost production. It´s $100-plus WTI. If you can not make money at these prices, you should not be doing oil.
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"Sir, they're catching on to us bombing the Nordstream pipeline". President Biden sighs deeply, "Release the UFOs".
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My favorite content on tik tok is this dude flexing as a petroleum engineer. "Quick Euro stop" 🤣
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Hummer EV is a killing machine. 9,000 lbs, 0-60mph in 3 seconds, and a low center of gravity. Going to absolutely rip other cars apart in wrecks.
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Rig crew saves the rig from burning down. Experienced a “kick” of gas – Got their TIW valve stabbed on top and closed to control the well. You can imagine the feeling of the guy wrenching the valve in knowing the well could blow at any second. Calm under pressure 💪
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Kid is home from school sick, watching youtube and playing video games. Spoiled ass kids don't know about staying home and having to watch Jerry Springer and The Price is Right for 5 hours.
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Realest talk I’ve heard from a politician on oil and gas. Enough of the grandstanding by idealists. @ByronDonalds you just earned a fan.
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One of our employees from Mexico has never had Texas BBQ, so we took him to Pinkertons. Changed his life 🙏
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2 guys die in a Tesla crash in Houston last night, neither of them in the driver seat. Took 32,000 gallons of water to put the fire out.
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I don't have a hard time believing FEMA is blocking citizen aid in North Carolina. During Hurricane Harvey, we were in the water evacuating people from their homes for days before I saw any federal agency. In this picture we were trying to access a friend's home. It was
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Football teams are worried about Covid but don’t care about brain trauma lol.
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I will never understand how you can hate Elon. How do you watch this and not feel inspired?.
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