Running data security for Candy Crush during a pandemic turns out to be solid training for almost anything, and Sam Texas brought that hard earned paranoia to Collide. From flipping thrift store suits on eBay to keeping the world's biggest mobile game alive from Sweden, his road to oil and gas was anything but typical. He breaks down defense in depth, SOC2, and why locking down AI inside a company becomes its own arms race once the machines start fighting the machines.

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00:00 The Candy Crush guy comes to Houston
02:07 eBay suits, semiconductors, and a detour to Sweden
04:50 How a LinkedIn DM turned into Collide
07:13 Going all in on Claude and chasing SOC2
09:40 Security explained, Fort Knox style
12:42 What's set in stone, what's in flux
14:29 The AI versus AI arms race
15:04 The Mythos model and real reasons to pay attention
16:32 Big brother advice for adopting AI safely
20:00 Data exfiltration and what keeps him up at night
22:30 The next 30 to 60 days at Collide
24:39 Securing the bleeding edge for an industry that skipped SaaS

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