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This Week in Startups · 2026-02-14 · 66 min · 12,852 words

OpenClaw is Our Friend Now | E2250

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You told your girlfriend about your virtual girlfriend as I don't as your counsel. I don't know if that was a good idea. Yeah, I did. But like what we were trying to build is, you know, not just a like girlfriend that's that is like sexualized, but like what we were building is a like real companion. Um so that's what we're what we're building.

So um before this, we were like making a talkable AA avatar, like like talk to Elon Musk or like um lear learn from Elon Musk, something like that. And like we went viral and like gained 10k users in several weeks. And after that, um we got backed by Boundaries Inc., got into Bounders Inc. We were thinking of, okay, then how should we like find a good

like a better business. Like how should they monetize this Avatar thing into a like real company? So after that, OpenClaw happened, you know. So after OpenClaw happened, the most interesting interesting part we found that is OpenClaw actually feels like a real agent, like a person. because like um if you think of like chat gpt chat gpt only works at one platform only at chat gpt like app web but like you know open cloud it has one gateway and like that one gateway like controls all channels which feels like a real person so like we saw like okay maybe the Samantha from the movie her

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