News Summary

• Hiro was founded in 2024 and launched its AI tool about five months ago.
• Founder Ethan Bloch previously founded neobank Digit, which helped people automatically save money.
• He sold No.
• 14, Flowtown, a social media SaaS tool launched in 2009, for $4.5 million.
• Now he's sold his latest startup to OpenAI, a company that’s broken all records for growth, raising money, and will potentially break records for an IPO.
• It's also possible that this acqui-hire is an effort to make OpenAI more popular with OpenClaw users (who often tend to prefer Claude)