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EPISODE · Feb 12, 2026 · 45 MIN

How These 3 Founders are building on Open Claw | E2248

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This Week In Startups is made possible by: Hubspot - http://clickhubspot.com/twist2 Deel - http://deel.com/twist Iru - http://www.iru.com/ Today's show:  Today on TWiST we're joined by 3 founders building on Open Claw,  Presh Dineshkumar, Vishnu, and Sean Liu! First, long time friend of the pod, Presh Dineshkumar, shows us how he's using Open Claw to automate his work at The Wellness Company. His Open Claw agent, Eywa, lives in his email and in his product, able to compile user lists at his discretion. Then, we're joined by Vishnu, who brings Open Claw to the masses. Non-technical folks, it's your lucky day! Time to get Clawd-shotted! Last, Sean Liu joins the show to tell us about how he's connecting Meta glasses to his Open Claw instance to interact with context that users can physically see! Timestamps: (0:00) We're joined by Presh Dineshkumar of the Wellness Company, another OpenClaw fanatic (1:50) We meet Presh's Replicant — Eywa — who spies on all of his emails (2:53) How Eywa is helping Presh keep track of his app's most active users (4:35) LLMs have become very smart but they are trapped in the corner (6:10) How Presh gave Eywa its own email address and avoids prompt injections (8:56) Using Presh's Replicant to do daily research dives (10:40) Hubspot: Check out the guide "Advanced ChatGPT Prompt Engineering: From Basic to Expert in 7 Days." Download it for free at http://clickhubspot.com/twist2 (13:21) Presh also has Eywa hunting down and fix bugs in his apps, all from email (16:16) Way more startups can be profitable now that they don't need 10+ person teams (19:15) Deel - Founders ship faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes and get back to building. Visit http://deel.com/twist to learn more. (20:36) We're joined by two more OpenClaw builders: Vishnu and Xiaoan (Sean) Liu (21:16) Sean hooked his Meta Ray Bans up to his OpenClaw! (29:53) Iru unifies identity, endpoint security, and compliance into one platform. Book a demo at http://iru.com/ (31:05) Some dystopian thoughts on how to use VisionClaw technology (32:47) What kinds of startups will get the most value out of OpenClaw? (34:43) Why Vishnu made a product to simplify OpenClaw set-up and security (37:34) What inspires people to stop considering OpenClaw and go "all in" on the tech (40:17) Will Vishnu and Sean quit their jobs and take Jason's investment $125K investment deal… YES Subscribe to the TWiST500 newsletter: https://ticker.thisweekinstartups.com/ Check out the TWIST500: https://twist500.com Subscribe to This Week in Startups on Apple: https://rb.gy/v19fcp * Follow Lon: X: https://x.com/lons * Follow Alex: X: https://x.com/alex LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwilhelm/ * Follow Jason: X: https://twitter.com/Jason LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncalacanis/ * Thank you to our partners: (10:40) Hubspot: Check out the guide "Advanced ChatGPT Prompt Engineering: From Basic to Expert in 7 Days." Download it for free at http://clickhubspot.com/twist2 (19:15) Deel - Founders ship faster on Deel. Set up payroll for any country in minutes and get back to building. Visit http://deel.com/twist to learn more. (29:53) Iru unifies identity, endpoint security, and compliance into one platform. Book a demo at http://iru.com/ Check out all our partner offers: https://partners.launch.co/

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