Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2252
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Today’s show:
We’re going behind the curtain today — it’s a packed show!
We found Tyler Yust, OpenClaw’s third EVER contributor to share his insights from within foundation! We’ve got Deedy Das, of Menlo Ventures, on the show to discuss whether SaaS is cooked! Next we met the creator of an OpenClaw instance that fits in your pocket! We’ve also got the founder of OpenBrowse showing us how he automatically detects and generates OpenClaw skills!
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro - Deedy Das Joins the Show!04:54 Anthropic’s revenue growth and valuation06:07 OpenClaw Contributor Tyler Yuts joins the show09:24 iMessage integration and Apple’s proprietary systems
00:10:07 Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist14:31 Anthropic vs. the Pentagon
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00:30:08 Sentry - New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to https://sentry.io/twist and use the code TWIST
00:35:46 The Infamous Citrini article00:32:47 Come to LAUNCH fest! https://fest.launch.co00:36:28 Why Deedy thinks the Cetrini article is a work of science fiction00:44:51 The illusion of privacy in corporate America00:41:18 Deedy thinks Enterprise SaaS apps aren’t going to be vibe coded00:49:20 Jason’s Reddit Bot00:52:01 Jason’s obsession with Singapore’s food00:55:22 How Unbrowse pulls any backend API!01:02:07 Sebastian shows off the smallest OpenClaw form factor!01:12:04 The Prolo ring — for people who doomscroll01:20:21 Deedy’s Podcast Player App!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Twist. Today is February 25th, 2026. I have to say this because, hey, it is A-0-31. |
| 0:09.0 | That's right. After OpenClaw, Day 31, all of our lives started when this incredible software dropped. |
| 0:15.1 | And now we can actually get on with the great singularity. What is OpenClaw? |
| 0:22.3 | Well, we've been talking about, as I said, |
| 0:29.8 | for 31 days on this podcast. When we see a trend, we keep digging into it. We keep doubling down on it until it stops changing everything. OpenClawn is an open source piece of software. What does it do? |
| 0:36.6 | It helps you create agents. We call them |
| 0:38.2 | replicants, AI agents, and it's getting better and better every day to the point at which people |
| 0:42.7 | are reporting that they can give it 10, 20 percent of their work every week consistently and that |
| 0:48.5 | they're building companies with 20 or 30 replicants working on them, you know, to every three humans. So maybe a five to one |
| 0:57.4 | ratio, a 10 to one ratio with us to talk about this incredible trend and all the news that's |
| 1:02.9 | happening. Didi Das from Menlo Ventures. Didi, how are you doing? Great. Thank you for having me, Jason. It's good to have you on your very... Oh, look at your All In. Where did you get that All In logo behind you? Turns out it's a common catchphrase, and so we do all in on AI. Ah, got it. Okay, there you go. Well, that is our trademark, and you'll be hearing from our attorneys momentarily. We'll send them over there. |
| 1:33.1 | This week in startups is brought to you by Century. Your team should be focused on shipping features, not chasing down bugs. New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to century.io slash twist and use the code twist. |
| 1:47.0 | Every.io. |
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| 1:57.0 | And lemon.i.o. Building a great team is essential to any business. Lemon is a marketplace of vetted, |
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| 2:09.6 | weeks of developer time at lemon.io slash twist. And lemon.io, building a great team is essential to any |
| 2:17.3 | business. |
| 2:18.1 | Lemon is a marketplace of vetted, experienced engineers ready to take your company to the next level. |
| 2:23.7 | Get 15% off your first four weeks of developer time at lemon.io slash twist. |
| 2:31.3 | So explain to people, you know, sort of your hot take on what we're seeing with OpenClaw |
| 2:38.4 | and, you know, these new models that are, I believe, we'll see what you think, D.D., |
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