Who is OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger? The millennial developer caught the attention of Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg

Peter Steinberger spent 13 years building a company that formatted PDFs. It took him only one hour to build the model that would eventually kill that app.

Steinberger, the founder of OpenClaw, the open-source agentic website that took the world by storm, told podcaster Lex Friedman that he first created the prototype because he “was annoyed that it didn’t exist, so I just prompted it into existence.” Nothing unusual for him–it was the 44th AI-related project he’s completed since 2009, a...