Anthropic will take your money — but not your advice
Source: Business Insider ·
Dario Amodei and his cofounders will be happy to sell you shares in their AI giant. But you won't get a voice in the way they run their company.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and his six cofounders will control 50.1% of the company's voting shares after it goes public.Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty ImagesPublic investors are finally getting a chance to invest in Anthropic.But unlike other public companies, Anthropic doesn't want the public's input when it comes to major decisions.Instead, Anthropic will be effectively controlled by CEO Dario Amodei and a group of other insiders.In the next few weeks, public investors will get their chance to buy a piece of Anthropic.But regular investors will never have a chance to steer the AI giant's decisions: Even though Anthropic is going public, it will essentially remain a private company, controlled by a handful of people with outsized power.That's not unusual for giant tech companies launched in the past few decades (Larry Page and Sergey Brin have effective control of Google; Mark Zuckerberg has the same at Meta, as does Elon Musk at SpaceX.) It's also something you see at some…