A 50-Year-Old Pipe Support Company Where 100 Employees Now Build Their Own AI Agents

A garage full of Ethereum rigs once set a house on fire, and that was only the warmup. Rakesh Agrawal and Lloyd Kirchner run Piping Technology & Products, a 50 year old Houston manufacturer where 100 employees now build their own AI agents and a welding cobot just got unveiled to 450 people on the shop floor. Cut cables in West Texas, new collar jobs, Pope Leo, and why the guy with the pickup truck had every reason to be nervous.

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00:00 The house fire

05:07 A cryptic DM about dad's company

06:15 What Piping Technology makes

09:56 Family business and the second chair

12:43 Every tech wave since dial up

17:02 Getting AI to actually spread