00:00One developer built AI's hottest tool in under an hour, and then caught the attention of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
00:07and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
00:09Meet Peter Steinberger.
00:11After selling a company he spent 13 years building for a reported 100 million euros, he retired, telling the Lex
00:18Friedman podcast he had lost his spark.
00:20But in November of 2025, he launched what is now OpenClaw, an always-on AI agent that reads your email
00:26and controls your web browsers to complete workflows on apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.
00:31He's rebranded the project multiple times from Clawedbot to Moldbot to OpenClaw, and has navigated several issues from a high
00:38-profile name dispute with Anthropic to crypto scammers who briefly hijacked his accounts.
00:44Steinberger also said he was losing up to $10,000 a month on the server, but has received multiple job
00:50opportunities, including personal outreach from Meta's Mark Zuckerberg.
00:54Now, Steinberger is joining OpenAI to gain access to the latest toys required to scale his vision.
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