The Investors Who Bought Anthropic Before the World Understood Its Value
Anthropic has had at least two generations of unusually early investors.
The first backed the company in 2021, before Claude existed, when Anthropic was a new research lab founded by former OpenAI researchers and its commercial prospects were largely theoretical.
The second arrived three years later under very different circumstances. By 2024, Claude was already in the market, Amazon and Google had committed billions to Anthropic, and generative AI had become one of the defining investment themes in technology.
Yet even then, Anthropic may have been dramatically undervalued.
That second opportunity came partly because of an event that had nothing to do with Anthropic itself: the collapse of FTX.
The bankrupt crypto exchange's estate needed to sell its stake in Anthropic, putting shares in one of the world's most closely watched private AI companies into the secondary market. Investors who bought during those sales were effectively purchasing Anthropic at a...
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