Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

Dario Amodei sits atop one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, valued by private market investors at roughly the trillion-dollar mark little more than five years after it was founded.

In a sit-down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, he said he has just one direct report — his chief of staff — while the rest of Anthropic’s executive team reports to his sister, co-founder and president Daniela Amodei, who handles day-to-day operations.

Amodei said the arrangement frees him to concentrate on strategy, culture, research direction and even long essays on the future of civilization (with footnotes). "It’s incredibly freeing," he tells Chang.

He described the setup as highly unusual: OpenAI’s Sam Altman has around half a dozen direct reports, while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang has many dozens. Amodei also noted that all seven of Anthropic’s co-founders remain with the company. "We’re basically the only company in the space" that can make that claim, he said.

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