Comment by yellow_lead

6 days ago

What crown jewels? Isn't openclaw, errr "open" source?

Elastic (Elasticsearch) – ~6.5 B USD

MongoDB – ~30 B USD

Docker – Private (~2+ B USD last valuation)

Redis Ltd. – Private (~2 B USD last valuation)

Grafana Labs – Private (~6 B USD last valuation)

Confluent (Apache Kafka) – ~11 B USD

Cloudera (Apache Hadoop) – 5.3 B USD (acquired)

SUSE Linux – ~2.5 B USD

Red Hat – 34 B USD (acquired)

HashiCorp – 6.4 B USD (acquired)

  • Did claudebot have paying customers? My understanding with these companies is that you buy the market, the product can just be forked (like Amazon did)