Is OpenClaw the First $1B Solo Company? API-First Products, Brand Rituals & Buying a Top-Level Domain
We kick things off with B2B SaaS lessons learned from Valentine's Day (yes, really), then spiral into whether the OpenClaw acquisition just produced the world's first one-person billion dollar company and whether Peter Steinberger is the most underrated engineer alive.
From there we get into why most SaaS companies are failing at AI, the rise of API-first and agent-first products, and why the stable SEO blog subscription world of SaaS is quietly dying.
We also do a full napkin math breakdown on what it would actually cost to buy your own top-level domain like dot napkin and whether that's a business worth building. Oh, and Nike invented jogging. We get into that too.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:35 B2B SaaS lessons from Valentine's Day
03:32 How brands invent rituals (Nike, HubSpot, Michelin)
10:46 OpenClaw — was this the first $1B solo company?
18:05 API-first & agent-first products
24:34 Most SaaS companies are failing at AI
29:12 How to stay sane in the AI gold rush
32:21 Napkin Math breakdown: buying a top-level domain
43:34 TLD ideas for the agent era
From there we get into why most SaaS companies are failing at AI, the rise of API-first and agent-first products, and why the stable SEO blog subscription world of SaaS is quietly dying.
We also do a full napkin math breakdown on what it would actually cost to buy your own top-level domain like dot napkin and whether that's a business worth building. Oh, and Nike invented jogging. We get into that too.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:35 B2B SaaS lessons from Valentine's Day
03:32 How brands invent rituals (Nike, HubSpot, Michelin)
10:46 OpenClaw — was this the first $1B solo company?
18:05 API-first & agent-first products
24:34 Most SaaS companies are failing at AI
29:12 How to stay sane in the AI gold rush
32:21 Napkin Math breakdown: buying a top-level domain
43:34 TLD ideas for the agent era