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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where OpenClaw comes up on the Startup Ideas Podcast, Latent Space, Big Technology, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, the a16z Podcast
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 2:15 Jason Lemkin And it's not that I don't love these products, but open claw broke every rule on the planet, not just laws, but just every rule of what you could do instinct and GrokBot, which are like open claw, they're much better. 2 times in the scene
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 35:55 Lenny Rachitsky Um, you mentioned open claw, obviously this is inspired by that. 8 times in the scene
Orbs: Shifting Coding to Cloud — Quinn Slack, Amp Code
- ▶ 18:58 Shawn Wang And this is my reflection, by the way, on OpenClaw as well, that people just run OpenClaw and it's not the most secure thing in the world. 2 times in the scene
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 52:34 Anish Acharya We had this incredible moment around OpenClaw, but guess what? 3 times in the scene
NVIDIA Crushes Quarter | OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor | Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
- ▶ 22:33 Jason Lemkin Well, look, this is, it's funny when OpenClaw, back six months ago when OpenClaw was with, what was the, uh, the, the sort of fake bulletin board? 5 times in the scene
Nvidia's Historic Quarter, SaaS Comeback, Bessent vs Druck, America's Debt Crisis, Cancer Vaccine
- ▶ 7:50 David Sacks The other, you know, agent harnesses that were kind of doing this were like OpenClaw or Hermes.
- ▶ 23:34 Jason Calacanis And it does the promise of OpenClaw. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 Jason Calacanis And I'm not trying to say this to say Sam did something nefarious or that OpenClaw is, you know, terrible or anything, but they just lost their edge.
Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 21:28 Martin Casado Um, uh, and then OpenClock kind of showed up, and that was earlier in the year. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 1:13:56 Jason Lemkin Same as open class. 4 times in the scene
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
- ▶ 19:31 Anish Acharya Personal agents, we had this collective moment of excitement around OpenClaw, um, in January, and it was an extraordinary sort of composition of primitives, but it never really crossed over into consumer.
Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
- ▶ 9:24 Shawn Wang So like open claw, all these clients and personal agents, like what, what do you want to see from them that you're, that they don't currently have? 2 times in the scene
Dario Defends Himself, Datacenter Panic, AI Doomer Trap, Senate Toss-Up
- ▶ 28:34 Chamath Palihapitiya Like Codex, or Claude Code, or Hermes, or OpenClaw.
Exo: Harnesses should see their own code and logs — Alex Krentsel, UC Berekeley / Google Research
- ▶ 0:18 unnamed speaker This is, this goes to show you how much persistence there is on YouTube, but like I actually had watched your lecture and then didn't register your name on OpenClaw.
- ▶ 4:23 unnamed speaker Uh, the first people to realize this was probably the Pi open claw people, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:27 Alex Krentsel So just in, in here we can see, and this is again from the, my lecture on principles of autonomous system design, which was really a deep dive and open claw because deep dive and open claw, because it came out, uh, you know, a couple of… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:22 Alex Krentsel People familiar with OpenClaw know that it has adapters that are really the way it interacts with and can receive messages from the outside world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:59 Alex Krentsel I remember seeing it in the OpenClaw architecture as a, as a way of allowing spawning other coding agents, um, within, within OpenClaw. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:14 Alex Krentsel I can tell you with OpenClaw, my bills for running OpenClaw ran way up because of the way it assembles its context. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ▶ 1:31:25 Gavin Baker It feels kind of like another open claw moment for AI, for this kind of personalization of AI, of making it, democratizing AI. 3 times in the scene
Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
- ▶ 21:36 Garry Tan Mess around with Open Claw. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:46 Garry Tan So, which is cool, like, he uses, like, he actually was one of the people who, like, really got me into Open Claw. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:13 Garry Tan Being, becoming a convert to OpenClaw made me very, very convinced that it was going to happen right away. 2 times in the scene
The Man Training GPT, Gemini & Claude Reveals What's Coming Next | Vijay Krishnan, Turing
- ▶ 56:03 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Risks from OpenClaw. 3 times in the scene
How Postiz Went From $17K to $143K/Month in 4 Months
- ▶ 2:13 unnamed speaker You do it with agentic tools like Claude, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, ChatGPT and so on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:20 unnamed speaker So a few months ago, there was a nice guy named Peter that released the tool called Open Claw. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:28 unnamed speaker So basically, I was really surprised how this person can get seven million views, so I also wrote an article about OpenClo and how to use it with posties. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:58 Pat Walls And I think a lot of people watching this might be like, you were just lucky with the open cloth thing.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 14:34 Jason Lemkin But I think it, I think these stories, you know, people made fun of all these OpenClaw stories, right? 3 times in the scene
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
Jack Dorsey's Buzz: Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
- ▶ 28:45 unnamed speaker I think they really hit on something here, so, you know, I think, um, we'll see, uh, it could go, like, I saw people commenting, Open Claw, you know, nobody's talking about Open Claw anymore. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:11 unnamed speaker Um, but they have adapters, so you can adapt, you know, you could even adapt OpenClaw 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- ▶ 46:07 Shawn Wang One big, another, I mean, it's July of 26, one big thing that also happens in, uh, for OpenAI was OpenClaw, and that's, I think, a lot of people's first time really maxing an agent for personal
Marketing Agents Are Too Good Now
- ▶ 23:23 Cody Schneider I'm deploying, uh, these solutions onto, you know, my Mac mini that I bought for open claw, but now it's actually just like working as a server.
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:18 Garry Tan I mean, um, I love that you're all the way down into the material science, all the way up into the app level, uh, you know, you're the first to speak on stage about Open Claw and now Hermes Agent, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:05 Garry Tan I mean, I remember when OpenClaw came out and people said it was unsafe, but you guys came out with a sandboxing sort of toolkit that like surrounds any harness and makes it safe. 4 times in the scene
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 36:21 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) Ability to move your opinion comes from not these abstract ideas, but from touching things, from actually setting up open claw or whatever, and getting some experience with it, and then having this instinctual feeling of where things are…
The AI Frontier: from open weights to open research — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
- ▶ 1:10:50 unnamed speaker Uh, just on the topic, do you, do you guys do much with like Hermes, OpenClaw, NanoClaw, whatever?
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
- ▶ 17:17 Jason Calacanis Well, you know, it's, what I'm seeing is a lot of tool hopping, which I, it's a good question because they started with OpenClaw. 3 times in the scene
Solo founder does 90 interviews in 90 days—raises $25M Series A | Nebulock · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:41 Damien Lewke So when OpenClaw first deployed, came out, right? 5 times in the scene
How Agents Will Steal Your Customers. Plus: The $10K App Our Agent Replaced and the $14 Migration
- ▶ 13:08 Jason Lemkin And I know people are going to say they do this with their open claw, but this is at a different scale and a different use case, right?
We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- ▶ 49:41 Gaurav Jain And, and through multiple iterations over the last, you know, year or so, it's essentially become, the way I think about it, like, open claw, but, like, fully managed for you, so you don't have to get your own hardware, secure, none of…
Stripe’s $53B PayPal Offer, OpenAI’s First Device, TBPN’s New Business Ideas | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 12:36 John Coogan We're now crossing the chasm of like the OpenClaw experience for people that weren't ready to set up the OpenClaw. 2 times in the scene
AI-Powered Political Texting with Andrew Missey of Convos | The Innovators & Investors Podcast
- ▶ 24:27 Kristian Marquez Um, you know, since then, having set up my own, uh, you know, OpenClaw agent, I'm not a coder, um, I still kind of get the sense, though, that this is early innings, and that we have a long way to go.
Making $$$ with Loop Engineering
- ▶ 3:05 unnamed speaker Also, Peter Steinberger from OpenClaw started tweeting about loop engineering, and everyone sort of was like, wow, what is this loop engineering thing?
OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
- ▶ 25:20 Jason Calacanis And then, you know, I started playing with this Hermes agent, which is not a French company, by the way.
Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable 5
- ▶ 1:00 unnamed speaker 4.5 is the best model to be running inside of something like Hermes or open claw today. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:44 unnamed speaker So here I'm just kind of trying to demonstrate a lot of people when they think of something like Hermes or OpenClaw, the first place that their mind goes to is automation and just like, I could be hands off and things are just going to be… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:53 unnamed speaker We give you a cloud computer to install Hermes or open claw inside of, and we just make it really simple to get, uh, up and going, um, with building out these, you know, AI agents.
- ▶ 8:40 unnamed speaker I, I, I mean, I don't, I don't like doing that with Hermes or OpenClock because the minute you turn your computer off, all of a sudden your, your agent is off. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:37 unnamed speaker I think we've yet to have the Claude bot open claw moment for voice.
- ▶ 43:20 unnamed speaker When Claude bot came out, someone created molt book, which is like a social media for these open claw agents.
- ▶ 50:56 unnamed speaker I would say like a Toyota Camry to a Ferrari because like, you know, we've had, okay, for a few months now, these models have been pretty damn good at like Hermes and open claw and just like, okay, using tools, but they would just take…
The Hidden Layer Every Al Product Needs Today | Atin Sanyal Founder, Galileo
- ▶ 58:10 Atin Sanyal Uh, Openclaw was one blueprint that was published and it just blew up because it said that here's one step that I've taken at how to build a long running agentic system. 4 times in the scene
Who Wins The AI Superapp Battle?, Apple’s Consumer AI Victory, World Cup Automation Mistake
- ▶ 7:31 M.G. Siegler So it does sort of, um, getting at the, the one thing that I left out, which is of course the notion of open claw, 3 times in the scene
The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
- ▶ 6:47 Shawn Wang Like I think that was, he mentioned that he looked at over God first. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:52 Gavriel Cohen We were, when I first spoke to you, when I first created, uh, OpenClaw, we were building an AI-native marketing agency. 2 times in the scene
Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown
- ▶ 28:48 Noam Brown I think Moldbook and OpenClaw, when they first came out, I think it was obviously a bit overhyped, but they were, um, an indication of where things could go in the future, and I do think that eventually we get to that kind of world.
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 27:43 Mike Krieger Actually, one of the reasons I think people got excited about things like OpenClaw is seeing how a, you know, harness that is modifiable and you can talk to it about things and
"Learn AI” Is Bad Advice. Learn This Instead
- ▶ 20:54 Greg Isenberg And when you start seeing people like Peter, who, who founded OpenClaw, you can tell that he's not only incredible at building, like he built an incredible thing with OpenClaw technically, but he also is, you know, if you go to his ex and… 2 times in the scene
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
The Enterprise AI Reality Check: From Dashboard Graveyards to 30-Day Migrations with Databricks
- ▶ 7:12 Arsalan Tavakoli Cause agents sound great, but my favorite was everybody was like open claws out. 2 times in the scene
AI Security After Codex and Claude Code — Zico Kolter & Matt Fredrikson, Gray Swan
- ▶ 46:46 unnamed speaker I think there's a lot of, you know, I just came from Microsoft where they were open arms with open claw. 11 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:12 Zico Kolter Front of mind for Frontier Labs are going to become front of mind for everyone, for all enterprise as they adopt tools like Codex, like Cloud Code, like Open Claw.
The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:47 Diana Hu I think what's pretty cool is basically you're taking this very esoteric niche thing that Open Claw users know about with a dream cycle when it iterates and improves the skills, which I think only people that are in super long tail and in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:12 Diana Hu Same, same thing with open claw.
URGENT SHIFT: Digital Wealth is Dying and Real Estate Holds the Key!
- ▶ 3:02 Paul Mark Morris Uh, it changed initially with something called Clodbot. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:38 Paul Mark Morris By Open Claw in combination with AI and what Open Claw can do with AI. 2 times in the scene
Meta' Secret Plan To Kill The Smartphone — With Alex Himel
- ▶ 23:36 Alex Kantrowitz And then, so talk a little bit about the, I mean, we're, we're kind of living in this open claw moment in a way where people are thinking about giving AI access to a lot of what they do to be able to take action for them. 6 times in the scene
The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:43 Garry Tan And they want to be like at the Esalen Institute and that's what OpenClaw is.
- ▶ 4:58 Pedro Franceschi And I would say, I think since then, OpenClaw was kind of a interesting sort of next step, which is, I think when we realized that, uh, you know, the reality is good AI products are agentic loops with tools. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:56 unnamed speaker Tell us more about the, your personal OpenClaw journey. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:44 unnamed speaker Like I think a lot of the stuff that I'm seeing kind of around the open clause ecosystem at the moment, at least, or just agent ecosystem is essentially doing that.
- ▶ 12:09 Pedro Franceschi And our whole sort of thinking behind it was like, that's a lot of what Open Claw, you know, created, which is his ability that you can self-bootstrap a lot of the capabilities of the agent by the way you edit your skills and markdowns and… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:05 Garry Tan Jared and I just did this this week for the first time where we installed aqua voice and then you open telegram with the claw or actually we have it in slack now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:47 unnamed speaker Which I think it feels where AI is, but with Arc, you're like super hardcore, and I think that's what Open Claw and Hermes feel like, because you have to really customize it to your own use case, maintain your skills, have all the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:42 Pedro Franceschi My most used developer UI right now is, like, voice memos to OpenClaw. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:29 unnamed speaker I was just like, based on like everything you know about me, all the interactions here, like generate like a sole MD for like my OpenClaw agent, and it was so unerringly like accurate about like kind of what I would want from like a, an… 2 times in the scene
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 7:01 Benedict Evans And there's clearly this kind of very widespread between people in the valley who bought, you know, a cluster of Mac studios and are running OpenClaw all day versus, um, you know, those other 40% of people who say, yeah, it's kind of…
Hermes Agent Desktop: Full Setup + Real Use Cases
- ▶ 1:18 Greg Isenberg Open Claw, why I need to shut down my telegram, and everything in between. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:57 Greg Isenberg It just feels like a more Apple-esque product for the open claw type of experience. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:18 Alex Finn Is they architected their agent a way where you can easily, you can switch models much easier than OpenClaw. 3 times in the scene
When AI Agents Run Businesses — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- ▶ 36:12 unnamed speaker To me, this also maps closely to OpenClaw. 5 times in the scene
Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 1:07:45 Kyle Daigle Uh, open issues and projects, et cetera, that are using, uh, issues like Peter and open claw, you know, uh, to be able to sick all of his agent, um, uh, on that, that kind of infrastructure layer and a really, really great coding…
- ▶ 1:12:01 Kyle Daigle And that is honestly why I think OpenClaw has been so interesting is that sure it's connecting to all the data, uh, sources that Kyle, the human cares about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:23 Shawn Wang Well, the other thing about OpenClaw that reminded me is Microsoft has a CVP dedicated to OpenClaw. 8 times in the scene
Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 34:06 unnamed speaker I'm pulling up Open Claw's memory thing right now. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI & SpaceX S1 Drops | Layoffs at Cloudflare & ClickUp | OpenRouter & Polsia Raise Mega Rounds · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:18 Harry Stebbings Um, the founder of OpenClaw, Peter Steinberg, even responded to the funding announcement saying how much he disliked these, um, solicited emails.
Building an AI Guardian for Enterprise with Onyx Security CEO Maxim Bar Kogan
- ▶ 4:21 Maxim Bar Kogan And then we had co-work and open claw.
- ▶ 9:36 Maxim Bar Kogan We're starting to see, to our own surprise, actually, people adopting OpenClaw as a legitimate sanction tool in the company because the CEO is very driven to adopt AI.
#2306 Polsia: AI Agent + Zero Employees = $10M Run Rate
- ▶ 7:03 Ben Cera You know, you, you see the reports on people using OpenClaw and saying it's charging my credit card like a hundred bucks a day, right?
- ▶ 30:04 Ben Cera Yeah, so essentially, like, I mean, I, I, I, it's, it's, the back story is like, as I was building Pulsia, it, so in, in, I, I launched mid-December, I started having some active users, people loved it, and then Open Club blew up in… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:52 Andrew Warner Same thing when I use Claude to send out messages or use whatever random thing people set me up with, or if I use, um, uh, open claw, it all allows me to control what access I give to 10,000 tools.
- ▶ 37:53 Ben Cera Versus, for example, if someone uses OpenClaw to do cold outreach, first of all, there's not going to be a two-a-day limit, there's not going to be a one-a-day across all OpenClaw clients, and then people can just, you know, that probably,… 3 times in the scene
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:03 Jared Friedman Yeah, perhaps foreshadowing, you know, subsequent things like Open Claw, where it turns out that, like, the thing that was hampering the world was being worried about security and privacy and all the things that could go wrong, and when… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:34 Garry Tan Like, you know, obviously I have, I have an OpenClaw. 3 times in the scene
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