OpenAI would have paid $400M or more for the latest AI hotness.

My guess if this guy has taken a job for maybe $1M, effectively handing over the crown jewels to Altman for nothing.

OpenAI must be laughing their heads off.

Beads and blankets.

Didn’t he make this in a month or two? That’s a great ROI

He's an experienced founder (psPdfKit)!

What crown jewels? Isn't openclaw, errr "open" source?

Elastic (Elasticsearch) – ~6.5 B USD

MongoDB – ~30 B USD

Docker – Private (~2+ B USD last valuation)

Redis Ltd. – Private (~2 B USD last valuation)

Grafana Labs – Private (~6 B USD last valuation)

Confluent (Apache Kafka) – ~11 B USD

Cloudera (Apache Hadoop) – 5.3 B USD (acquired)

SUSE Linux – ~2.5 B USD

Red Hat – 34 B USD (acquired)

HashiCorp – 6.4 B USD (acquired)

Did claudebot have paying customers? My understanding with these companies is that you buy the market, the product can just be forked (like Amazon did)

>effectively handing over the crown jewels

lol. what?