Anthropicâs Dario Amodei has just one direct report
In Brief If founders and other business leaders werenât already envious of Dario Amodei, who sits atop one of the worldâs fastest-growing AI companies
In Brief If founders and other business leaders werenât already envious of Dario Amodei, who sits atop one of the worldâs fastest-growing AI companies â currently valued by private market investors at roughly the trillion-dollar mark little more than five years after it was founded â theyâre going to be seriously envious now.
In a new sit-down with Bloombergâs Emily Chang, he reveals he has just one direct report â his chief of staff. Everyone else on Anthropicâs executive team reports to his sister, co-founder and president Daniela Amodei, who handles day-to-day operations. Anyone who has managed a large team knows that the people side of the job has a way of consuming everything else.
Amodeiâs arrangement frees him to focus almost entirely on strategy, culture, research direction, and sweeping essays on the future of civilization (with footnotes). âItâs incredibly freeing,â he tells Chang. Itâs a
highly unusual structure. OpenAIâs Sam Altman reportedly has around half a dozen direct reports, which is far more standard, while Nvidiaâs Jensen Huang â another extreme outlier â has many dozens.
