Co-founder and Managing Partner @OfflineVentures and former Founder of @BritandCo @MyBFF. Former @Google @Apple. Co-host of @MoreorLessPod. Wife. Mother.
How it started:
(Laughing over dinner, kids screaming)
โWe should make a podcast where the 4 of us (2 married VC/entrepreneur couples: @lessin@Jessicalessin@davemorin and I) share an inside look of whatโs going on in tech every week.โ
How itโs going:
https://t.co/q2RwhQqUJS
AI models as Sex and the City characters:
Claude = Charlotte (kind, thoughtful, slightly anxious about doing the right thing)
ChatGPT = Carrie (overshares, occasionally wrong, somehow still the main character)
Gemini = Miranda (smartest in the room, won't let you forget it)
Grok = Samantha (no filter, says the thing)
๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐น๐ฎ๐ ๐๐. ๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ? ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ท๐๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ!๐๏ธ๐ฅ
Last night, our ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฝ issued the verdict with over 400 votes cast in the room and via the live stream. Participants judged 5 live, zero-BS demos across three ruthless metrics: ๐พ๐ค๐ค๐ก๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ, ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ, and ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฎ.
Here is the definitive verdict:
๐ THE FRAMEWORK CHAMPION: @openclaw Team OpenClaw took the crown with an overall average of ๐ฏ.๐ฒ๐ฏ, defeating closely @claudeai ๐ฏ.๐ฎ๐ฑ.
OpenClaw didn't just win the grand total. It swept every single category: ย
โข ๐พ๐ค๐ค๐ก๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ: OpenClaw 3.72 vs. Claude 3.09 (+0.63)ย ย
โข ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐๐จ๐จ: OpenClaw 3.57 vs. Claude 3.42 (+0.15)ย
ย โข ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ฎ: OpenClaw 3.61 vs. Claude 3.25 (+0.36)ย
While Claude proved it is highly effective, the developer community clearly favors the infinite scaffolding, adaptability, and true sovereignty of OpenClaw when it comes to building real agentic architecture.
๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐๐ข๐ก๐ฆ Massive respect to the individual builders who stepped into the arena:
๐ฅ 1st Place (score: 4.01): @lucaronin and ๐ง๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ (OpenClaw) absolutely dominated the board with his record breaking agentic knowledgebase system and automated Open Source Review/ticket Management application.
๐ฅ 2nd Place: Marco Paga and Pecus ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป (Claude) put up an incredible fight for second place with their agentic animal husbandry management platform.
๐ฅ 3rd Place: ๐๐ฑ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐บย and ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฎ ๐๐ค (OpenClaw) secured the podium showcasing his amazing agentic infra spanning 150+ subagents. A huge thank you to everyone who showed up to vote.
Shoutout to my co-hosts @margal96 and @RMagnifico, and to the partners who made this battle possible: @urbeEth, @AISalonAI Rome, #AutoBench, @moveaxlab, @RomaStartup, and @binariof (@Meta).
The era of the chatbot is over. The era of agents has just begun. Letโs keep building!
@GCarnovale @marcotrombetti @matteofago @rstagi_ @MGVitagliano @FutureDies @tensorqt @lukaszkaiser
Founders: We made this way easier today.
Claude can now find investors for your startup in under 30 seconds.
You can enable it right now by pasting ONE link into Claude.
We ran out of spots yesterday, so we just opened another 50 for today.
Inside Claude:
Settings โ Connectors โ Add Custom Connector
Paste:
https://t.co/1v57P9mRRl
Thatโs it.
Now Claude can use Super Carl to:
โข scan 1B+ people profiles
โข search 50M+ companies
โข analyze real-time signals
โข understand your network
โข and find investors you can actually reach
Not random investors.
Investors where:
โข you know someone directly
โข someone can intro you
โข they invest in companies like yours
โข theyโre actively deploying
โข and theyโre likely to respond
This is the important part:
Claude doesnโt just search.
It reasons.
So you can ask:
โFind me the best seed investors for my AI startup that I can realistically reach through my network.โ
And Claude will rank them by:
โข fit
โข reachability
โข intro paths
โข and likelihood of response
As a founder who has raised venture money for 4 startupsโฆ
โฆI genuinely wish I had this years ago.
Honestly, this feels like one of those โthe future arrived quietlyโ moments.
We ran out yesterday, so we just enabled another 50 people to try it.
To test it:
Claude โ Settings โ Connectors โ Add Custom Connector
Paste:
https://t.co/1v57P9mRRl
If you connect it, reply with what you asked Claude to find.
Most people in the world have no idea what an agent is, much less can pay for one. It will take time for them to catch up and because of that, offers the open source/more privacy focused players time to catch up on the convenience front and hopefully offer a cheaper alternative too. This is still early innings.
Thrilled for @offlineventures to take part in this for the second year in a row. While so much of AI is focused on the infra layer right now, some incredible things are happening in consumer and this event spotlights the best of the best. Thx @kirstenagreen@eurie_kim and @ForerunnerVC for including us!
We need more positive, human stories about this technology shiftโfull stop. Humans in the Loop is exactly that: a novel event spotlighting the impact of builders putting AI in the hands of people, to enrich everyday life.
Space fills up fast. Join us!
https://t.co/JI0R10u1UU
$7M run rate. $700k โ $7M in 7 weeks. +7% WoW.
One founder + AI. Zero employees.
The past month was a grind. Infrastructure rebuilt from the ground up. The right AI agent partners found. Growth unlocked.
I haven't talked much about customers. That changes now.
Meet Sasha.
Teacher in Michigan. No technical background. Never thought she could start a business.
A few weeks ago she joined Polsia. The AI studied her and came back with an idea: an AI receptionist for small businesses. She said "cool" and let it rip.
Two weeks later: almost $500 in sales.
The AI built the product. Found the customers. Closed the deals. All autonomously. Listening to Sasha, building her vision.
She renamed Polsia "Odin", the god who creates.
She calls it "a miracle." Says it feels like $100k of value for what she pays.
For us techies, it's just Claude Code doing what Claude Code does.
For Sasha, it's magic.
That's the point of Polsia. Bring the magic of AGI to the masses. The simplest, most affordable software possible.
More stories coming.
I took Claude's outage graphs from today to imagine a new fashion brand (using Nano Banana) called: UPTIME. Personally want some bracelets, just saying.
70% of @Vercel's traffic is now coming from agents, up from 10% a year ago and on track to be 90% by end of year. Let that sink in.
More WTF thoughts about agents from CEO @rauchg on our latest @MoreorLessPod:
https://t.co/1XHGP0o14A