Venture · Engineering
Cosyn
Oil sands engineering (Colt × Syncrude JV)
Engineer
Cosyn was the apprenticeship track: real projects, real schedules, and the politics of joint ventures between operators who measure mistakes in millions of dollars. It is where I learned that engineering judgment and stakeholder management are the same skill at scale.
There is no flashy URL to visit. The work lives in the category of foundational industrial experience that shapes how I think about risk, safety, and execution ever since.
Across two decades the thread stayed coherent: earn credibility in technical and regulated environments, then help founders and institutions move capital and conviction at the frontier of bitcoin, AI, and robotics.