According to Business Insider's report on the 27th, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his sister, company president Daniela Amodei, originally brought in five other people to co-found the company, many believed that having seven co-founders run the company together was by no means a good idea. Yet today, the siblings believe that it was precisely this seven-person co-governance model that became the key to Anthropic's success.
Dalio revealed that the seven hold equal ownership stakes, share the same vision, and trust one another. He often disagrees with his co-founders on major issues — from which safety measures AI models should have, to how to lobby regulators — but trust allows disagreements to always reach resolution. He described how everyone has differing opinions out of goodwill, and they always ultimately reach consensus, because they believe everyone is sincerely searching for the right answer and no one is hiding their true thoughts. He also contrasted this with his experience at OpenAI.
Candidly stated in the prospectus
Daniela believes that candor applies not only between founders, but also runs throughout communication between management and employees. "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, repeatedly presenting "honesty" as the core of its public image. The special governance arrangement disclosed in the filing shows that seven co-founders will jointly hold 50.1% of shareholder voting rights, more than all other shareholders combined."
The seven people also hold large stakes and stand to gain billions of dollars in wealth, and each has pledged to donate 80% of their Anthropic equity. The prospectus also reveals the financials: revenue of 4.6 billion last year with a net loss of 42 billion; in the first 9 months of this year, five customers accounted for about 25% of revenue; the Amodei siblings' combined compensation last year was about 35 million dollars.