Austrian media are reporting that Peter Steinberger had a $100m exit with PSPDFKit in 2021.
I'm extremely curious what OpenAI's offer was. The utility of more money is diminished when you're already pretty wealthy.
I think he accepted that offer exactly for this reason . He feels he can have a bigger impact within OpenAI (and maybe become a billionaire in the medium run?) that creating his own business (again) out of OpenClaw.
It makes me more inclined to take the OP at face value, genuine interest in working on something similar and making it easier for everyone ('my mum') to use.
It probably also makes him more attractive to OpenAI et al. - he's not just some guy who's going to have all sorts of risks earning a lot of money for the first time.