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Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
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
Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
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.
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
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
- ▶ 12:19 Pete Koomen The harnesses that have gotten really popular, right, uh, Claude Code, Codex, Pi, OpenClaw, Hermes, they're all,
- ▶ 15:26 Garry Tan I mean, honestly inspired by what you guys did with tools, like this idea of Skillify in OpenClaw. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:41 Garry Tan This is OpenClaw's dream cycle, and G-Brain also has a dream cycle.
- ▶ 37:11 Garry Tan And I just gave it to my, you know, Gary's list team yesterday as their own open claw instance. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:41 Garry Tan Computer is probably the best version of it, but it's still like, you know, pretty limited compared to what you could do with OpenClaw and Hermes agent. 2 times in the scene
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:08 Garry Tan Using OpenClaw these days is like driving a Ferrari, and it's, like, exhilarating.
- ▶ 24:21 Garry Tan Like, you know, OpenClaw right now, um, there are lots of, like, failure cases, but it's 95% there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:30 unnamed speaker And even with OpenClaw, I found out when I set it up, yeah,
- ▶ 27:11 unnamed speaker Almost half of it is through OpenClaw now. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:35 unnamed speaker Like, certainly something I've noticed is any sort of, like, semi-complicated programming task I try and do through my OpenClaw agent just, like, kind of fails. 2 times in the scene
Replit's CEO On The Only Two Jobs Left In The Company Of The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 23:36 Amjad Masad Uh, so if you think about 20 25, um, there was the, like, Vibe Coding Revolution that happened in earlier 2025, and then there was the, you know, the autonomous revolution that happened in late 2025 with Opus 4.6 that led to Open Claw and…
- ▶ 28:29 Amjad Masad Um, and you, you can sense that in the sort of open claw and all the derivatives, and the way people are using it, um, they're more giving it high level goals, like optimize my marketing funnel, you know, things like that.
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:45 Garry Tan What if it's OpenClaw and, um, Obsidian and Markdown files and like, you know, a brain.md with like ontology that's custom to your use case, and what if it's a hundred OpenClaws in the background that you orchestrate? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:01 Garry Tan What's interesting about OpenClaw, I don't know, I mean, basically it can go and it can just do things, which is interesting, and then at that point it's on the research lab to provide, like, you know, CLI MCP endpoints to the things that…
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:06 Garry Tan For one thing, Clawed Code has totally taken over my life, and if Jared has any indication, I think Open Claw maybe has taken over his. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:45 Garry Tan I have, you know, non-technical CEO friends who are going all in on OpenClaw. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:23 Jared Friedman Like, if everyone has their open claw or running various aspects of their life,
- ▶ 11:28 Jared Friedman Cause like in theory, you could maybe get your open claw to like sign up for a Gmail account in order to use email, but it's like actually really hard to get it to do that because Gmail and every email provider has intentionally made it as… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:50 Garry Tan Like, they're like very simple things that you can do that the agents are smart and they'll, you know, you could pop a modal for open claw and it's like new rules for Motebook.
OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:00 Raphael Schaad Today, I'm sitting down with Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, the open source personal AI agent that has completely taken over the internet.
- ▶ 0:46 Raphael Schaad Uh, Open Claw, as it's called now, has absolutely. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:54 Peter Steinberger And then in November, like, my need came back, and I, I started building CloudBot. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:07 Peter Steinberger So, like, the companies try to, like, bound you to their data silo, and the beauty of OpenClaw is it kind of claws into the data, because at the end user, the end user needs access, because it's, in the end, otherwise it wouldn't work,…
- ▶ 16:05 Peter Steinberger That's actually part of Openclaw itself, very much so that, that's part of the system prompt. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 Raphael Schaad In terms of building OpenClaw, um, you're also kind of taking a little bit of a contrarian view at some times, like which model you like for coding, which one you like to run your bot on, um, and then also like how you actually like, you… 2 times in the scene