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Kill Your Startup’s Knowledge Chaos with OpenClaw (with Oliver Henry and Jeff Weisbein) | E2254

February 23, 2026

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🎙️ The Speakers & Context

  • The Format: Host-led discussion with live demos from guests.
  • The Key Players:
    • Hosts: Jason Calacanis (Launch founder, investor, podcaster) evangelizing OpenClaw's enterprise impact; Alex (co-host) probing technical nuances and market implications.
    • Guests: Oliver Henry (RevenueCat engineer by day; OpenClaw hacker behind viral Larry TikTok marketing skill and Larry Brain skill marketplace); Jeff Weisbein (solopreneur with 4 apps; OpenClaw power user building custom agents like Fubs for dev/marketing).
  • The Vibe: Electric, demo-heavy, optimistic—hosts and guests geek out on real-time OpenClaw builds amid snowstorm chit-chat.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:00) **🎙️ Introduction: Oliver Henry & Jeff Weisbein**
  • 2 (04:00) **OpenClaw Accelerant for Efficiency**
  • 3 (08:00) **Jeff's Reddit Skill for OpenClaw**
  • 4 (12:00) **Platform API Resistance & Solutions**
  • 5 (13:30) **Oliver's Larry TikTok Marketing Agent Demo**
  • 6 (23:00) **Batch Processing & Solopreneur Shift**
  • 7 (28:50) **Jeff's Agent Core Loop & Shared Memory**

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Show Notes

This Week In Startups is made possible by:Caldera Lab - [calderalab.com/twist](https://calderalab.com/twist)Iru - [iru.com](http://Iru.com)LinkedIn Jobs - http://linkedin.com/twist*OpenClaw is incredible at automating tasks. But what if it could also fix your startup’s internal communication problems? Give agents shared memory, and you may be able to break down information silos while ensuring that teammates have the same context.@oliverhenry and @jeffweisbein demo what they’ve actually built with OpenClaw, including marketing automations, agentic loops, and bug fixing tools. Then we dig into what agentic infrastructure means for how startups operate, and why traditional SaaS products need to quickly adapt for the agentic era.Oliver Henry: The creator of the ‘[Larry](https://clawhub.ai/OllieWazza/larry)’ OpenClaw skill, and founder of [Larrybrain](https://www.larrybrain.com/)Jeff Weisbein: The Claw-pilled founder of [WizardRFP](https://www.wizardrfp.com/) and [WhoCoversIt](https://www.whocoversit.com/), who shared his OpenClaw framework [publicly](https://weisbe.in/openclaw) and built a [getting-started guide for the tool](https://github.com/jeffweisbein/openclaw-starter-kit)**Timestamps:** 00:00 Intro

(00:01:43) Here’s why you never ski alone in a blizzard!

(00:04:22) Why everyone at LAUNCH is going to get their own Mac Mini and AI agent

(00:08:06) “OpenClaw has changed my entire solo-preneur lifestyle.” — Jeff Weinstein of Hype Lab

(00:09:06) Jason’s urgent API message to Steve Huffman of Reddit

(00:10:20) LinkedIn Jobs - Hire right, the first time. Post your first job and get $100 off towards your job post at https://LinkedIn.com/twist

(00:15:12) Oliver shows us his Larry Skill to make viral TikTok content with zero human intervention

(00:20:10) Iru - Iru unifies identity, endpoint security, and compliance into one platform. Book a demo at https://iru.com.

(00:21:22) Why are platforms like TikTok still so hostile toward bots?

(00:24:45) The shift from asking a chatbot how to do things, to just telling an agent to do things

(00:26:05) How Oliver is training Larry to get better at its job

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(00:32:47) Why making your agent more PROACTIVE is more important than automating everything

(00:37:14) Why pull requests… just aren’t really a thing any more.

(00:39:40) How Jason is using his new AI assistant, “Roy,” to keep track of everything going on at his company

(00:53:00) Is the SaaS

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