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Published · transcript-backedPeter Steinberger: evaluation
12 Feb 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
“There’s, like, I think every VC, every big VC company is in my inbox and tried to get 15 minutes of me.”
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- Peter Steinberger
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- 12 Feb 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…I mean, I have to ask you, just curious. I, I know you’ve probably gotten huge offers from major companies. Can you speak to who you’re considering working with? Yeah. So, to like explain my thinking a little bit, right, I did not expect this blowing up so much. So, there’s a lot of doors that opened because of it. There’s, like, I think every VC, every big VC company is in my inbox and tried to get 15 minutes of me. So, there’s, like, this butterfly effect moment. I could just do nothing and continue and I really like my life. Valid choice. Almost. Like, I considered it when I delete it, wanted to delete the whole thing. I could create a company. Been there, done that. There’s so many people that push me towards that and, yeah, like, could be amazing. Which is to say that you, you would probably raise a lot of money in that.…
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