OpenClaw is Our Friend Now | E2250
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Today’s show:
What makes OpenClaw feel so much more ALIVE than other AI agents?
On TWiST, we’re welcoming three amazing builders who are truly connecting with their OpenClaw bots, not just using them for productivity but getting to know them and their personalities on a deeper level.
Serial entrepreneur Ryan Carson shows us Antfarm, which creates a team of agents with specialized roles, who work together to complete complex tasks.
THEN David Im shows us Clawra, his AI virtual girlfriend that learns about you and your tastes, and even buys you presents!
FINALLY, Alex Liteplo presents RentAHuman, a marketplace where bots can pay real people in stablecoins to complete IRL tasks.
The future may not just be humans and AIs working side by side, but hanging out, being social, and learning from one another as well!
Timestamps:
(0:00) It’s a Friday show with Lon and we’ve got THREE awesome OpenClaw builders
(6:41) First up, Ryan Carson shows off his open source too, AntFarm
(7:57) What is a “Ralph Wiggum Loop”?
(10:54) Sentry - New users can get $240 in free credits when they go to http://sentry.io/twist and use the code TWIST
(17:14) NOTI Q: What about security?!
(18:13) David Im shows us his AI virtual girlfriend, Clawra
(19:21) Circle.so - the easiest way to build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand. TWiST listeners get $1,000 off the Circle Plus Plan by going to http://Circle.so/twist
(20:33) Introducing your IRL girlfriend to your AI girlfriend
(23:23) How to program an AI companion
(28:26) Should Clawra be a best pal instead of a GF?
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(33:54) Jason’s Productivity Hack of the Month
(36:17) Alex Liteplo shows us RentAHuman, where AI agents can hire real people
(38:22) What are the bots hiring people to do, exactly?
(50:02) Why robots might be better bosses than people…
(50:51) Hiring 100 goth girls to hold signs in Times Square
(55:25) OFF DUTY! Norwegian skier breaks down on live TV
(58:01) Lon’s fav Best Picture nominees
(59:08) Why Apple acquired “Severance.”
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| 0:00.0 | You told your girlfriend about your virtual girlfriend? |
| 0:02.3 | As your counsel, I don't know if that was a good idea. |
| 0:05.5 | Yeah, I did. |
| 0:06.5 | But like, what we were trying to build this, you know, not just like a girlfriend that's, that is like sexualized, but like what we're building is a real companion. |
| 0:15.0 | So that's what we're building. |
| 0:17.0 | So before this, we were like making a talkable A-A. Avatar, like, talk to Elon Musk or, like, learn from Elon Musk, something like that. And, like, we went viral and, like, gain 10K users in several weeks. And after that, we got back by Founders Inc. got into Founders Inc. We were thinking up, okay, then how should we find a good, like a better business? |
| 0:39.0 | Like, how should they monetize this avatar thing into a like real company? |
| 0:43.5 | So after that, OpenClau happened, you know? |
| 0:46.5 | So after OpenCla happened, the most interesting part we found that is OpenClau actually |
| 0:53.2 | feels like a real agent like a person. |
| 0:56.0 | Because like if you think of like chatypT, chatypt only works at one platform, only on chatypt, |
| 1:02.0 | like app or web. |
| 1:04.0 | But like, you know, OpenClau, it has one gateway and like that one gateway like controls all channels, |
| 1:10.0 | which feels like a real person. So like we saw like, like, controls all channels, which feels like a real person. |
| 1:11.5 | So like, we saw like, okay, maybe the Samantha from the movie heard. |
| 1:16.5 | Maybe in real life. |
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