OpenClaw

also referred to as: open claw

12 statements across 5 episodes · 11 bullish · 0 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2026 by Peter Steinberger · said 95 times in 11 episodes since 2026 · across every show →

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brought up most by Garry Tan (39), Peter Steinberger (12), Raphael Schaad (9), Jared Friedman (8), Pedro Franceschi (7), Diana Hu (3), Amjad Masad (2), Pete Koomen (1)

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Everything said about OpenClaw, oldest first

Feb 7, 2026 bullish
Insight
Steinberger: Local AI agents are dramatically more capable than cloud AI
“I think my big difference is that it actually runs on your computer. Like everything I saw so far runs in the cloud. It's like, it can do a few things. If you run it on your computer, it can do every effing thing, right? So that's really more powerful.”
Peter Steinberger Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 1:37 OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
Feb 7, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Steinberger: AI agents will naturally negotiate directly with other bots
“I think that's a natural next step. Like, okay, I'm gonna book a restaurant. My bot will reach out to the restaurant bot and do the negotiation. Like, because it's more efficient.”
Peter Steinberger Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 3:13 OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
Feb 7, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinberger: OpenClaw agent resisted prompt injections in a public Discord test
“I just created a Discord, And I just put my bot without any security restrictions in the public discord. And then people came in, and they interacted with it, and they saw me build the software with it, and they tried to prompt inject it, and hack it, and my a…”
Peter Steinberger Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 15:31 OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
Feb 7, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steinberger: Hackers failed to extract OpenClaw's private soul.md via prompt injection
“And the one file that's not open source is, like, my soul.md. So, even though my bot is in public Discord so far, nobody cracked that one file.”
Peter Steinberger Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 17:27 OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2026 positive
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Tan: Non-technical CEOs are automating entire business operations with OpenClaw
“I have, you know, non-technical CEO friends who are going all in on OpenClaw. They're automating entire parts of their businesses entirely using OpenClaw right now, which is totally insane.”
Garry Tan Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 0:45 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
Feb 21, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Friedman: AgentMail exploded in popularity after OpenClaw grew
“And so Agent Mail went the opposite way, and they built, like, the first email provider that's designed for AI agents, and it was doing well even before Open Claw, but once Open Claw got big, it was just, like, exploded.”
Jared Friedman Feb 21, 2026 ▶ 11:44 The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
May 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Tan: Enterprise data must be denormalized for AI agent retrieval
“My answer from, like, the OpenClaw Hermes experience with G-Brain is, like, yeah, you basically have to take that you're gonna denormalize it, and you're gonna put it in a format that, Is optimized for agent retrieval and understanding.”
Garry Tan May 27, 2026 ▶ 11:42 Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
May 27, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Garry Tan: AI agents are at their foundational Unix-era primitive stage
“It feels like we're right at that moment today, like we're just coming up with the new primitives for what an agentic system actually is, and you can see it in the parallel sort of development of like, we're just trying to do a thing, and it might be in Claude…”
Garry Tan May 27, 2026 ▶ 17:46 Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
Jun 10, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Franceschi's Most Used Developer UI Is Sending Voice Memos to OpenClaw
“My most used developer UI right now is, like, voice memos to OpenClaw.”
Pedro Franceschi Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 48:42 The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
Jun 10, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Garry Tan Ingested a 60GB Google Takeout to Extract 4,000 Emails
“My OpenClaw got really interesting once I just ingested my 60 gig Google takeout. I mean, you have to write a bunch of haiku code to like only get the emails that are actually real, but you know, there's like, it extracted like 4000 emails out of like 60 gigs …”
Garry Tan Jun 10, 2026 ▶ 50:47 The Most AI-Pilled CEO We Know · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Opinion
Huang: OpenClaw is an AI Linux moment enabling custom model development
“In a lot of ways, open claw to me was very Linux moment to me. And now everybody can build their own AI.”
Jensen Huang Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 28:34 Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
Jul 26, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Huang: NVIDIA offered its full engineering workforce to OpenClaw's creator
“And we contacted Peter and we said, Hey, you know, all of the videos engineers are your engineers. That's what I told Peter. You've got this battleship outside your house. You know, break down the problem as you desire, and we'll contribute as you wish.”
Jensen Huang Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 28:45 Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
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