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Anthropic

AI safety company started by former OpenAI staff, maker of the Claude models.

Of the 8 people here linked to Anthropic, 6 are founders and 7 are still there. 7 of them also appear at OpenAI. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

8 people at Anthropic

Founder

Role

Co-founder and president, 2021–now

Also at

Source · high confidence
Still there
Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 3 / 2
Daniela Amodei
Co-founder and president, Anthropic; former VP of Safety and Policy, OpenAI
middle · well-connected · college degree
Founder

Role

Co-founder and CEO, 2021–now

Also at

Source · high confidence
Still there
Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 3 / 0
Dario Amodei
Co-founder and CEO, Anthropic; former VP of Research, OpenAI
middle · well-connected · graduate degree
Founder

Role

Co-founder and Head of Policy, 2021–now

Also at

Source · high confidence
Still there
Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Media 5 / 2
Jack Clark
Co-founder and head of policy, Anthropic; former policy director at OpenAI; writes the Import AI newsletter
class not established · well-connected · college degree
Founder

Role

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, 2021–now

Also at

Source · high confidence. Forbes lists the title on October 18, 2026. Founding year from Wikipedia's Anthropic article.
Still there
Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 3 / 1
Jared Kaplan
Co-founder and chief science officer, Anthropic; theoretical physicist and author of the neural scaling-laws paper
class not established · well-connected · graduate degree
Founder

Role

Co-founder; chief architect (previously chief technology officer), 2021–now

Also at

Source · high confidence. Forbes lists him as cofounder and CTO on October 19, 2026. Storyboard18 (October 4, 2025) reports the move to chief architect, so the Forbes title may be out of date. Founding year from Wikipedia's Anthropic article.
Still there
Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 3 / 1
Sam McCandlish
Co-founder of Anthropic, its chief architect since October 2025 and earlier its chief technology officer; second author of the neural scaling-laws paper
class not established · well-connected · graduate degree
Founder

Role

Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer, 2021–now

Also at

Source · high confidence
Still there
Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Software 4 / 1
Tom Brown
Co-founder and chief compute officer, Anthropic; lead author of the GPT-3 paper at OpenAI
class not established · some · graduate degree
Board

Role

Board director, appointed by the Long Term Benefit Trust, 2025–now

Also at

Source · high confidence. Appointment announced May 28, 2025; no departure found.
Still there
Technology 2 / 1
Reed Hastings
Co-founder and former CEO, Netflix
elite · elite · graduate degree
Investor

Role

Investor, by his own account

Also at

Source · medium confidence. Named in the Fortune interview among his investments. No year, amount or current holding is stated, so status is held at past.
Past
Music 8 / 8
will.i.am
Founder, Black Eyed Peas; co-founder, Beats Electronics
public housing · outsider · no college

Connected companies

Other companies that share profiled people with Anthropic.

OpenAI
7 shared: Daniela Amodei, Dario Amodei, Jack Clark, will.i.am, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Brown
Google
2 shared: Dario Amodei, Tom Brown
Baidu
1 shared: Dario Amodei
Beats Electronics
1 shared: will.i.am
Dropbox
1 shared: will.i.am
Intel
1 shared: will.i.am
Meta Platforms
1 shared: Reed Hastings
Microsoft
1 shared: Reed Hastings
Netflix
1 shared: Reed Hastings
Stripe
1 shared: Daniela Amodei
Tesla
1 shared: will.i.am
Twitter / X
1 shared: will.i.am