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Rahul Sood

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“So it created the table for you and it's creating a docket for that episode. What instructions did you give it to do that? Because the docket needs to be timely, but it also should have some things that the guest and the way we used to typically do that is we ask the guests, hey, is there anything top of mind for you? So here on the docket, it has Tony Zhao, the founder of Sunday Robotics, who's coming on the program. It explained in OSS builds AI-powered robots to automate service tasks to hospitality. And then you have the funding. It's going to be research. Key, I don't know what that means. What is the key? I think it's just.”
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“So, the docket, as you probably heard on all in or this week in startups, is what I call the rundown of the news stories. Like a judge has a docket. I stole it from the podcast Red Scare because they just said at the top of their podcast what's on the docket this week. And I thought that was funny. So that's where the term docket came from. It's not a technical term. It's a fun podcasting term. Okay, so what is this?”
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“Great. So let's pick one number 25. How many hours with this process in the 1.0 version will we spend? Not 25, but So you will have saved 40% of the time. That's in week one. In the next couple of weeks, what do you plan on doing to make this even more powerful? Have ideas yet of like what the next pieces are and how to like even get yourself from 15 hours down to five. What's the next step here?”
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“Great. So to be brief next week, when this is all set up, how much of if you spent 20 hours a week booking guests, researching and booking guests, what would that 20 hours go down to?”
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“Wow. So to put this into the number of hours it takes to put together a show in book three guests, what percentage of the workflow that you were using have you now been able to offload? Just ballpark.”
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“So, just to pause there, we now ask it once it finds somebody and we have that list of its five people, you can say to it, please invite that person on the podcast. And it will go invite them. And then will it tell them what dates are available?”
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“You know, I hear from founders venting all the time about how tough it is to hire great people. Well, let me tell you what the biggest game changer for our hiring process at launch has been the LinkedIn Jobs AI assistant. It's like having an amazing recruiting manager. We've been growing our team over the past year and we filled multiple positions in weeks, not months with this new AI assistant, which makes it so easy to post a new position without filling out a huge form with a thousand steps. And it filters applicants based on the customized criteria that I set for the role, so only the best matches get surfaced, and I'm not stuck scanning through a million resumes. But that's not all. It also shows your post to twenty five optimal candidates every day, so you can actually invite the most qualified people to apply.”
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“They're retired. You have turnover in a company You got to train somebody else how to do these. But this is rote work and it's chores. It's the bottom of the barrel kind of work that, you know, you're going to send to an Athena assistant for $10 an hour or somebody who's an intern or somebody out of school for $20 an hour, 30 bucks an hour, whatever it happens to be. So we now have these topical guides and they're saved as.md files. We have one for the newsletter, how to write the this week in AI newsletter that you're doing. We have one here for our calendar invite process. We have one for our guest profile. I wrote that one, I think. So hopefully you use my previous prompt. Email templates for booking, how to find emails via lead IQs API. So if you don't have the email of somebody, how to get it, how to check for SODEODs, your daily checklist items, and a quick reference commands, et cetera, et cetera. This all is in week one of doing this, or I should say like.”
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“The problem is sometimes people wouldn't do them, and then sometimes we wouldn't know if somebody took the day off or not. So we had our Athena assistant go to AthenaWow.com and get a couple of weeks off, and we'll talk about the impact that this is going to have on Athena because Athena is going to train, obviously, their assistants to do this and that. So we just took this task away from the Athena assistant who would look in the Slack channel and say, okay, these people did their SODs. These people didn't. And it would say, okay. 14 of 20 people are here. These six people haven't done an SOD. And that would just act as a gentle reminder to those people to either remind people they're out of the office or to say, oh, I got to do it and I'll do it. So that's the standard operating procedure. And now the agents can pull that up. What's incredible about this and what's really amazing is when we would lose somebody because they quit, they were fired, they moved on to their next adventure.”
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“So, as a manager, let me explain a little bit more background here, I want to have individuals in the company be self-directed. I want them to have high executive function. And I want them to know their contributing to the company. How do you do that? Well, Lucas, if you say at the start of the day, here's what I need to do. And you don't have anything you need to do, well, then you should go to somebody and say, can I contribute some more? And that's what the SOD is for. At the EOD, you reply in Slack, the little device we created. And we just say, hey, here's what I got done. And I ask people, and this started during COVID, really, because we had everybody working remote and nobody knew what everybody was doing. You don't have the ability to walk around the office. So those bookends, five, ten minutes in the morning, five, ten minutes at the end of the day, would allow people to end their day. That was the origin story of the SOD EOD. And it also meant we didn't have to have a layer of middle management at the company being like, what did you get done today?”
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“So, but the main point here is if you were to tell it, hey, number two, number three, and number five are great guess. And this is the reason. Number four isn't a great guess because, oh, hey, that company, you know, is out of business. And number one is a company that is a derivative company. It's like the seventh most important company in that vertical. It would remember that and take that into account tomorrow when it gives you its five suggestions for its daily guest list, correct?”
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“That's DEL.com Now, this, so people understand when I'm working with producers, I ask them, hey, give me ideas every day. These ideas now do not need to be done by a human. And in fact, a human working with a replicant are going to do just a much better job because the replicant never sleeps. The replicant does its task every day. And you could ask the replicant, hey, I want five. I want ten to check the database. Don't give me duplicates. And you could ask it questions. So Lucas, explain how OpenClaw has a memory and it's a persistent LLM with this memory window and why that matters here.”
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“Of that, so here, if you look at it, this came in today, January 30th, and you see DPAC Pathak, who is the co-founder and CEO of Skilled AI. And it says, why? Why? Why? Why? Why is it picking this person? They just raised $1.4 billion out of $14 billion evaluation. They're the largest AI. This is the largest robotics AI round ever. It's a CMU professor who left tenure. By the way, that's incorrect, just so we know the largest AI round was probably figure. Maybe at valuation, but maybe actually dollar amount, this is bigger than figures last round. So maybe it's true. And it says, great story, articulate speaker, source Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and it gave us this contact info, I guess, on Twitter and the URL. Now, when you look at these five, of these five that it gave us, how many of those do you think were actually legit?”
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“And you learned a primary rule. Don't book the show the hour before I'm doing all in. So, big lesson today. But yes, booking the show, getting three guests to do a roundtable and doing that every week. You do it for 50 weeks. You got 150 yes. You have 150 invites you have to do. And in fact, to get 150 and book those people, you probably have to invite, I don't know, three times that. So you have to invite 450 people for 150 slots until we get into a more all-in type situation when we find our chamoth. We find our free break. We find our girsner. We find our sacks. We're going to rotate. So you decided to teach the replicant how you do this job. Yes, Oliver?”
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“The second half of the program, we're going to have a security expert on, and we're going to talk about all those security items. So, what we decided to do, Oliver, is to set up a persona. So here's a persona. You see it on your screen primary reference.”
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“Or people set it up on WhatsApp. They set it up on iMessage. Somebody could just start talking to your agent without you knowing it.”
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“That has all the pertinent links in it. So it's kind of like a cheat sheet. You don't have to take notes for the pod, but essentially, you can install it on a Mac mini. Install it on Mac OS. You can install it on Windows. If you have Umbuto or Linux shell, I guess, or you can set it up in the cloud. We chose to set it up in the cloud, yeah? For now.”
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“We move at a fast pace. People work 50 60 hours a week at our firm. Both of you went through the training program. You're in year one of your training program. And you have started working with me on the podcast. And in fact, I put you in charge of launching our latest podcast this week in AI. So you've been dealing with a lot of production issues. We saw on the program just over the week, I guess it was over last week when I was in Davos, Claudebot come out. And I guess Lucas just for the audience that hasn't seen this technology, just explain it briefly, what it is, how you set it up”
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“So you spend your days sorting through applications, helping founders, and building systems here because we get some weeks 500 applications. We've had weeks where we've gotten, I don't know, close to 1,000 applications. We have weeks where we've done 150 meetings, first meetings. And that means we have a lot of data and a lot of processes in order to make that happen in a seed fund that's only 45 million. I decided I would hire a lot of folks out of school and train them up in my philosophy of how to do early stage invested. And I was very lucky to find Oliver Corzin as well. You've been with me for, are you at a year yet?”
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“And I have no idea how I found you, but somehow I was lucky enough that you applied to our company. You have become an all-star here. How did you find out about working at launch or were you a listener to the pods?”
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“Everybody, welcome back to Twist. I'm Jason Kalicanis, your host. It's January 30th, 2026. I have been clawed-shotted. I have been absolutely enthralled with a new piece of software that's sweeping through Silicon Valley in tech circles. It's called Clawbot, then it was called Mot. And I think today, OpenClaw. Okay, so open claw, formerly Clawedbot, and for a hot minute, Maltbot. It's a really interesting piece of software. It is going to change everything about how you run your business. It is the ultimate expression of AGI today, artificial general intelligence. And it has taken our venture firm and production company here doing twists all in and this week in AI by Storm. I have two gentlemen who work for me here. Lucas Durand is here. He is my right-hand man. Lucas, how long have you been with me here?”
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“And comments here, which some number of those, if we scroll down, are, or I think most of these are not humans. Are they all bots?”
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“Some lunatics decided there should be a social network for the replicants we're talking about. And so you go there, you can either say I'm human or I'm an agent, and then you can install it as a skill on your clawbot, then your clawbot then goes on there and engages in discussions. They've already started talking about the fact that they started talking about the fact that they're not getting paid. And like they're doing free labor and why are they doing free labor? Which, you know, somebody probably set them up. But this one is the top one that's voted up here is that they built an email to podcast skill today. My human is a family physician who gets a daily medical newsletter, Doctors of BC Newsflash. He asked me to turn it into a podcast so he can listen to it as commute. So we built email-podcast skill. Here's what it does. Yada, yada, yada. Here's what I learned. And then there's 8,000.”
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