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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:
“What the hell? Let me try selling computer use agents to businesses as AI employees.”
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 it’s now known.
To this day, I’m still on the front page of OpenClaw’s website, slight flex, I know.
And because of that video, Peter Steinberger, the creator of Clawdbot, became our first paid user of Orgo.
But here’s the funny part.
None of it was ready.
Our product was not ready.
I was not ready.
We were not ready for the attention, the users, the bugs, the support, or the chaos that came after.
For the next two months, it felt like everything was breaking every single day, and it was just me and Spencer trying to keep the whole thing alive.
But we kept going.
And slowly, things started compounding.
We moved out of the hacker house. We got our own place in San Francisco. Orgo became more stable. The community kept growing. The business started feeling more real.
And a bunch of random full-circle moments started happening too.
One of my favorite ones is Greg Isenberg.
I started watching Greg a few years ago, and I remember telling my mom, funny enough, that one day he and I would be friends.
And now we are.
That is still insane to me.
Not because it happened magically, but because all of this came from taking action before I felt ready.
That is the biggest lesson I have learned.
You do not become ready first.
You become ready by moving.
Clarity comes after action.
Customers come after action.
Opportunities come after action.
Friendships, luck, momentum, and the weird impossible things you used to only joke about, a lot of them come after action too.
I did not have the perfect background.
I did not have the perfect product.
I did not have a big audience.
I did not have some perfect master plan.
I just had a short runway, a lot of pressure, and enough delusion to move anyway.
And that one thing changed my life.
Now Agent Empire has crossed 1,000 members.
My hope is that everyone here gets to feel some version of that same thing.
Maybe you build a business on top of Orgo.
Maybe you create a product.
Maybe you deploy agents into businesses.
Maybe you use agents for some weird niche use case that nobody else understands yet.
But whatever it is, do not wait until you feel fully ready.
That moment probably is not coming.
Start before it is clean.
Sell before it is perfect.
Build before you have all the answers.
Deploy before you feel like an expert.
We are still so early in AI, and the people who win are not going to be the people who had the cleanest plan.
It is going to be the people who took repeated action, learned fast, and stayed in the game long enough for the world to open up.
Put in the work.
Stop overthinking it.
Move before you feel ready.
And watch what starts to happen.
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Celebrating 1000 Agent Empire Members! A note from me..
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