IT Home News on October 28 — according to a report by Business Insider on the 27th, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his sister, the company's president Daniela Amodei, initially decided to start a business together with five others, many people believed that seven co-founders running a company together was by no means a good idea.
Today, however, the brother and sister believe that the model of seven people jointly founding the company is precisely The key to Anthropic's success。
Dario revealed that everyone in the company holds an equal share of stock, shares a common vision, and places great trust in each individual. He often disagrees with the other co-founders on major issues, including what safety measures should be adopted for AI models and how to lobby for regulatory policies, butMutual trust between each otherso that disagreements can always be resolved.
"Differences of opinion come from good intentions, and we always reach consensus in the end, because we believe everyone is sincerely searching for the right answer and no one is hiding their true thoughts." In addition, he compared this collaborative relationship with his earlier work experience at OpenAI.
Anthropic President Daniela believes that candor is not only a principle for how the founders get along with each other, but is also reflected inCommunication between management and employees...middle. "Honesty, integrity, and the way we treat each other and our employees also reflect how we want to develop technology."
Just recently, Anthropic published its S-1 prospectus filing prepared for its IPO. The documentrepeatedly emphasized the importance of honesty, and made it central to Anthropic's public image.
According to the special governance arrangement disclosed in the prospectus, Anthropic's seven co-founders willjointly hold 50.1% of the shareholder voting rights, more than the combined voting rights of all other shareholders.
The seven also hold substantial company shares and stand to gain billions of dollars in wealth. Each of them has pledged to donate 80% of their Anthropic equity to charity.
The closely watched prospectus also disclosed several key financial figures: Anthropic's revenue last year was 4.6 billion US dollars (IT之家 note: approximately 30.745 billion RMB at the current exchange rate), with a net loss of 42 billion US dollars (approximately 280.718 billion RMB at the current exchange rate); in the first 9 months of this year, five customers accounted for about 25% of revenue; the Amodei siblings' total compensation last year was about 35 million US dollars (approximately 234 million RMB at the current exchange rate).