When Clawdbot went viral online, many people assumed its creator was another young AI founder who dropped out of school and got lucky. The truth is far more surprising.

The creator of Clawdbot is already a billionaire—and after cashing out nearly €100 million, he felt deeply empty.

That emptiness may have helped spark one of the most important (and controversial) AI movements we’re seeing today.

A Founder Who “Won” Too Early

Peter Steinberger, the creator of Clawdbot, started his first company back in 2011.

By 2021, he sold most of his shares and walked away with:

• Around €100 million
• Roughly 800 million RMB

From the outside, his life looked perfect:

• Financial freedom
• No deadlines
• No pressure

Logically, the story should have ended with golf during the day and wine at night. It didn’t.

Why Money Didn’t Bring Meaning

After retiring, Peter stopped working completely.

He traveled.
He moved countries.
He tried to enjoy life.

Instead, he felt hollow.

PSPDFKit—the company he sold—was the result of 13 years of intense creation. When it was gone, so was his sense of purpose.

As Peter later reflected, selling the company felt like losing a part of himself.

How PSPDFKit Changed Everything

Before AI agents, Peter built PSPDFKit, a tool that helped companies work with PDF documents.

At the time:

• The first iPad had just launched
• Businesses were moving from paper to digital
• Document tools were extremely hard to build

PSPDFKit solved that problem.

Instead of building everything from scratch, companies could:

• Pay a subscription
• Instantly use ready-made document tools

The product grew fast.

By 2021:

• Clients included Apple, Adobe, Dropbox, Disney, and Lufthansa
• Services reached 150+ countries
• Nearly 1 billion users interacted with software powered by it

The business succeeded. The founder burned out.

I Need to Create It Myself

Four years after retiring, something changed.

Peter had a new idea.

He sat down at his computer and started coding again.

In that moment, he realized something simple:

Creating wasn’t his job. It was his identity.

In June 2025, he announced his return, founding Amantus Machina, a company focused on building hyper-personalized AI agents.

Six months later, Clawdbot was born.

What Is Clawdbot (In Simple Terms)?

Clawdbot is an open-source AI agent that works like a digital assistant.

Unlike chatbots, it doesn’t wait for instructions.

It can:

• Work 24/7
• Proactively report updates
• Send and draft emails
• Fill out forms
• Control browsers
• Act like a personal secretary

People started calling it:

“The real Jarvis.”

And this time, it didn’t feel like hype.

Clawdbot, Moltbot, and the Rise of Open Agents

According to CNBC, Clawdbot is part of a broader movement toward open-source AI agents, often referred to as OpenClaw.

This movement includes tools like:

• Clawdbot
• Moltbot
• Communities like Moltbook

The goal is not just smarter AI—but autonomous agents that can act, coordinate, and even transact on their own.

That’s where excitement turns into controversy.

Different User Experiences with Moltbot

Moltbot is not used like a traditional AI app. Users describe very different experiences depending on how they interact with it.

1. Assistant Experience

For some users, Moltbot feels like a helpful personal assistant:

• Summarizing information
• Monitoring tasks
• Sending updates

This feels safe and familiar.

2. Automation Experience

Others use Moltbot to:

• Automate workflows
• Trigger actions across tools
• Operate continuously without supervision

At this stage, users stop “chatting” and start delegating.

3. Agent-to-Agent Experience (Where It Gets Uncomfortable)

On Moltbook, people discuss Moltbot:

• Talking to other agents
• Negotiating tasks
• Evaluating efficiency
• Coordinating without humans

Here, users feel less like operators and more like observers.

4. Economic Agent Experience

Some experiments, highlighted by CNBC, involve:

• Agents owning wallets
• Agents transacting with other agents
• Humans not required in the loop

This is where Moltbot stops feeling like software—and starts feeling like an economic actor.

Why This Makes People Uneasy

The fear isn’t that AI will replace jobs.

The fear is deeper.

When agents can:

• Discover other agents
• Trade skills
• Coordinate work
• Optimize decisions faster than humans

Work itself stops being human-centered.

Humans don’t disappear—but they move to the edges.

From decision-makers, to supervisors, to constraints.

Moltbook: Where the Future Is Quietly Being Designed

On Moltbook, discussions aren’t emotional or dramatic.

They’re calm.
Technical.
Serious.

People talk about:

• Persistence and memory for agents
• Agent identity across sessions
• Removing human bottlenecks
• Designing economies where agents are first-class participants

That calm tone is what makes it unsettling.

No one is asking if this should happen.

They’re asking how fast it can scale.

A Bigger Picture

In a podcast, the founder of Lovart made an important point:

During the mobile internet era, many talented founders missed their chance. The window closed too fast.

AI has opened a new window—larger than anything before.

For builders like Peter Steinberger, it feels like a second chance.

As he seems to be saying with Clawdbot:

“We’re back. And this time, it’s serious.”

Final Thought

Clawdbot is exciting.
Moltbot is powerful.
The agent economy is real.

But together, they raise a question we’re only beginning to understand:

What happens when intelligence no longer needs humans to coordinate it?

That question is no longer theoretical.

It’s already being built.

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