This Week in Startups · Jason Calacanis

Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2252

February 26, 2026·1 hr 22 min·5 clips
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Jason Calacanis interviews Didi Das from Menlo Ventures and early OpenClaw contributor Tyler Yust about the rise of AI agents, focusing on the open-source OpenClaw project. They discuss practical applications, ethical concerns with military use, and future trends like local AI models and innovative hardware interfaces.

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OpenClaw, startup labor, and the economics of agent work.

The episode presents OpenClaw as both an open source agent-building tool and a sign of how work may be changing. Jason and Didi Das stay close to the practical questions: what the software does, why it matters, and why teams are already passing 10 to 20 percent of weekly work to…

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OpenClaw gets the full operator treatment, with a close look at how people are using it to build agents and reshape work.

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