Openclaw founder: Not interested in multi billion dollar financing, project must be open source to ensure popularity BlockBeats News: On February 13th, Peter Steinberger, the founder of Openclaw, confirmed in an interview with Lex Fridman that Openclaw has received acquisition offers from multiple companies. Steinberger expressed no interest in the potential financing of hundreds of millions or billions of dollars. I have already been CEO once, and this path will take up all my time and bring conflicts of interest, such as prioritizing the enterprise version and modifying open source licenses, which will harm the community. What I want is completely free and open source without any additional conditions. Moreover, relying solely on donations is simply unsustainable now, as popular projects like Tailwind are laying off employees. '' In addition, Steinberger stated that Openclaw is currently losing money. Monthly income of $10000 to $20000, but subsidies for personal maintenance of dependent projects, with some support from companies such as OpenAI, are still unsustainable. Regarding the option of collaborating with large laboratories, Steinberger stated that the core condition is that the project must remain open source, similar to Chrome and Chromium. "This matter is too important to be completely handed over to a company. Moreover, ClawCon's community atmosphere is particularly precious, which is the enthusiasm of the early Internet. I want to popularize it to more people. This year is the first year of personal agency, and collaborating with laboratories is the fastest way. I have never worked in a large company before and I want to experience this kind of experience