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Morning Edition · Thursday, September 17, 2026Published at 2:17 AM EDT · New York
Six Anthropic Co-Founders Enter the Forbes 400 at an Estimated $15.5 Billion Each
Forbes puts each stake at roughly 1.6 percent of the company, arithmetic that implies a valuation approaching $1 trillion for a firm founded five years ago.
Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan and Sam McCandlish debuted on the Forbes 400 with an estimated $15.5 billion each, or $93 billion combined. All six left OpenAI in 2021 to found Anthropic. The number is an e…
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