Celebrating 1000 Agent Empire Members! A note from me..
November 2025, I had one month of runway left. I was living in a hacker house in Berkeley with 15 other people, working out of an electrical room under the stairs, trying to build my AI agent business at the time called ComputerUse.Agency. Before that, I had been running an AI edtech platform that was doing a few grand a month at one point, but by then it was trending to zero. So I had a choice. Keep trying to save the thing that was slowly dying, or go all-in on something bigger. My now co-founder, Spencer, was building the early days of Orgo, and I thought to myself: βWhat the hell? Let me try selling computer use agents to businesses as AI employees.β The next morning, I booked seven calls. By the end of the week, I had my first paid customer: a $3,500 implementation for an AI agent automating distribution workflows. And the whole thing was built on top of Orgo. Orgo was originally meant to be more of an AI researcher tool for computer use agents, but I was using it differently. I was running a business on top of it. At some point, Spencer and I looked at each other and realized I had more revenue than he did. We were like, what are we doing? We should just work together. Fast forward to January 24th. Spencer was landing in San Francisco, and I was supposed to pick him up from the airport. I was already running late, but there was this new thing called Clawdbot. Out of pure excitement, I pulled out my camera and made a quick video explaining what Clawdbot was and how to set it up on Orgo. The first 10 minutes, it was crickets. At the time, I had no following. I would get one or two likes on most tweets. Truly, nobody was watching. But then the video started moving. It went on to do 1.5 million impressions on Twitter, then another million on Instagram, then another million on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and everywhere else. That post was the first video to ever go viral for Clawdbot, or OpenClaw, as itβs now known. To this day, Iβm still on the front page of OpenClawβs website, slight flex, I know.