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Behind the Scenes with an early OpenClaw contributor! | E2255

February 25, 2026|Original: 1h 21m|10 key insights|5 min read

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Claude Code hit $2.5B run rate in just 14 months—the fastest-growing product of all time (and it's still losing money)

A 22-year-old aerospace dropout discovered OpenClaw on Twitter, became the 3rd core contributor, and now manages 4,000+ pull requests a week

The Pentagon just gave Anthropic an ultimatum: remove AI safety guardrails by Friday or lose $200M in defense contracts and get blacklisted

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