AI Told You So Again: How I Built a $1B Unfair Advantage — And So Can You (Meet OpenClaw)

by Lou Abramowski | at Minnebar 20

Two years ago at Minnebar I said I could build a $1M business in 30 minutes using ChatGPT. You were skeptical. I did it anyway.

Combat Candy now has half a million in seed capital, five-figure monthly sales, and a Shopify store so effective it makes even Chatgpt question free will.

So naturally, I raised the stakes. Because apparently I have something to prove. To you. Repeatedly.

This year I’m going to show you how a two-person supplement company is chasing $1B ... not because we’re delusional, but because we built something that makes the math actually work.

It’s called OpenClaw, and if you haven’t heard of it yet, you will because your LinkedIn feed is about to bombard you with it.

OpenClaw is an open source multi-agent AI framework that’s quietly becoming one of the most powerful unfair advantages available to anyone with a MacMini and something to prove. I’ve deployed it across Combat Candy like a very ambitious, extremely underpaid intern army.

  • It runs our email marketing.
  • It optimizes our paid social spend.
  • It manages and grows our CRM.
  • It finds, inspires, and literally pays our affiliates.

And that genuinely is just the tip of the A-Iceberg.

Two people. One framework. Zero chill about what’s possible.

I’ll show you exactly how I built it into our stack, what it’s doing right now, and how you can steal the whole playbook before you leave the room.

Bring your skepticism. I brought receipts. Again.

All levels

Lou Abramowski

Lou Abramowski or -- as he's known to many -- "Hot Lou" has spent the last 20 years building startups from OurFamilyWizard.com (the biggest family management tool on the web, acquired in 2020) to 8thBridge (MN Cup 2009 Grand Prize winner, acquired in 2014) to today Evergreen (a social media automation tool for SMBs) and Combat Candy (a creatine gummies supplement DTC brand).

He's also helped build gigantic social media communities on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, etc. for billion dollar brands like Jack Link's Beef Jerky and the Minnesota Vikings, to just a couple thousand for small non-profits like Simon Says Give, to hundreds of thousands for obscure children's entertainers like Twig the Fairy.

Outside of the software startup and marketing world, he's a national and world championship ultimate player and coach.

Links:

@hotlou everywhere on social media


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