Jacob Vizinat & Jason Harry from Iron Stag Advisory & Pontem Analytics

Two engineers who spent years driving innovation inside a major oil company get honest about why the offshore world will land a robot at 20,000 psi but won't swap the pen and paper. Jacob Vizinat of Iron Stag Advisory and Jason Harry of Pontem Analytics unpack the corporate immune system, why the real value lives in the rock, the black magic of flow assurance, and how the right advisor can turn a single pilot into a real shot for energy tech founders.

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00:00 Intro
00:46 Meet Jacob and Jason
02:34 Life as a petroleum engineer
05:55 Driving innovation inside a major operator
08:26 Trading pen and paper for iPads
11:35 The corporate immune system
16:20 Why the value lives in the rock
26:32 Flow assurance and black magic
32:46 How short-term thinking kills innovation
36:00 Building advisory firms after the merger
38:35 Drones, robots, and the rare orchestrators
46:31 What it takes to go offshore
48:00 Reading the 2025 market
53:25 Why founders avoid the gold mine
56:02 Advice for early stage founders
1:01:12 Where to find them

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