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This Week in Startups · 2026-02-10 · 68 min · 13,706 words

Does Clawdbot (OpenClaw) Need Eyes? (feat. Alex Finn and Matt Van Horn) | E2247

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So this to me, guys, is taking uh AI, Cloudbot, outside of just the digital world and bringing it into our physical world. I can imagine a lot of ideas and use cases for this. Clearly still a demo. You can play with it. But Alex, first thoughts.

Yeah, my first thoughts are I don't find that remotely interesting, just to be quite honest with you. Uh I just like to me my life is not improved by an AI going and buying me monster energy drinks off Amazon. I don't think that has any sort of economic impact on this planet. What interests me is this going and empowering individuals to accomplish what only large corporations could do before, right?

That's the interesting thing to me. And that's kind of a vision I've been building towards with uh all my products. Economically useful. I mean, people do a lot of shopping. Companies need to buy a lot of stuff.

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