This Week in Startups · Jason Calacanis

How the OpenClaw foundation bullet-proofed its future (w/Dave Morin) | E2257

March 3, 2026·1 hr 15 min·5 clips
Dave Morin explains why OpenClaw felt like living in the future for the first time since ChatGPT.
Jason Calacanis interviews Dave Morin about the OpenClaw Foundation, discussing its role in protecting the open-source AI project, investment opportunities, and ethical debates around AI and military contracts. The episode includes demos of AI agents and insights into the future of personal AI.

As heard by us

OpenClaw leads into startup incubation and a later turn toward nonlethal military tech.

The episode treats OpenClaw as a question about where a new ecosystem might be headed. Jason pushes Dave Morin on what comes after the setup, and the conversation settles on Launch.co backing people who already have an idea, a decent team, and a prototype.

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You get a startup chat that starts with OpenClaw and ends with nonlethal foam and investment talk.

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