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Dave Morin

Founder & Partner Emeritus, Slow Ventures, Slow Ventures

Search every verified Dave Morin interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Dave Morin, founder and partner emeritus at Slow Ventures, appeared on two podcasts in September 2026. On the "Solo Founders" podcast, he discussed his career, including work at Apple under Steve Jobs, launching Facebook Platform, founding Path, and co-founding Slow Ventures. He described himself as a "producer, not an investor" and argued that most startups fail due to relationship issues rather than product problems. He stated that solo founding fails when founders believe it means being literally alone, and he advised that founders should seek creative relationships and collaborators. He also mentioned backing Ben Cera for 15 years, including before Cera's company Polsia reached a $250 million valuation, and said he chairs the OpenClaw Foundation. On the "More or Less" podcast, Morin discussed recent technology developments, including Apple's iPhone Duo and Meta's Muse agent. He said OpenClaw is growing faster than ever, comparing the current agent landscape to the early personal computer era before the Macintosh. He also said that using OpenAI's Astra model felt "marginally scary" for the first time, noting it was particularly adept at using computers and 3D modeling, and he commented that the tech industry's motivation has shifted from creative endeavors toward financial gain.

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Notable quotes

“I was playing with Astra last week and over the weekend. It was the first time where my experience of using one of these models, maybe for a year, maybe two years, felt marginally scary. Well, it's really good. I don't think it's actually improved much in its ability to speak English language, all that kind of stuff, but it's extremely good at using computers. It's extremely good at 3D modeling. Our son took it and m”

“OpenClaw is actually growing faster than ever. We had our biggest week last week. And I think what this means is that the world of agents is just expanding. I mean, I always tell everyone that it's kind of like we're in 1982, 1983 in the personal computer and the Mac hasn't been invented yet. Everyone's creating new computers, trying to make a computer that's more usable for everyone and racing towards can there be a”

“AI is currently less popular. Not it's more it's less popular than ICE and Jeffrey Epstein in the United States which this is a serious problem right and what's the most amazing thing about openclaw I mean look at everybody that's here right now we've seen like we said people in every all kinds of countries we have different stuff going on all over the world and everyone's showing up because it's fun because it's a l”

“I tend to use an Apple frame on this — if I'm selling Mac minis to the DoD, the DoD is going to use the Mac minis to do what they want to do; it's a utility. Those two points feel pretty political and kind of advantageous for marketing to me.”

“It's Peter's project — the foundation exists to protect it, not to control it; at the end of the day Peter built this thing and so I think you can expect that he's going to make the decisions, especially the technical ones.”

“We didn't perceive it as that — the way we implemented the address-book/friend-finder flow was how everyone in the industry was doing it, and it wasn't intentional. It was an unfortunate user-experience decision, not a nefarious privacy grab.”

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