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Krishna Rao is the chief financial officer of Anthropic, overseeing finance for the AI company behind the Claude model family.
Anthropic told investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion and that it turned a profit, the Financial Times reported. At up to $2 trillion, that quarter annualized puts the listing near 30 times sales.
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A Bloomberg report says Anthropic wants an offering at least the size of SpaceX's record raise. Against a $965 billion private mark, that implies placing roughly 8 percent of the company.
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Dario Amodei made $18 million in 2025, mostly in stock and options, Anthropic's IPO filing shows, ahead of a listing that could value it above $2 trillion. The co-founders' stakes are not yet disclosed, so the new stock units are the best guide investors have to what keeps them there.
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Executives privately hope to match or beat SpaceX's record $75bn IPO, according to Bloomberg's sources, while briefings led by the CFO decline to discuss valuation.
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The Series G prices Claude at roughly 27 times a run-rate figure Anthropic reports itself. The enterprise buyers supplying that growth have no public view of what the new shareholders received.
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Reported October timing has retail buyers reaching for funds that already own the company. What they get is a minority slice, a fund-level charge and a limited exit.
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CNBC reports the prospectus will name public hostility to AI and its data centers as a key risk. SpaceX's filing this year kept backlash attached to Grok's output and to permits.
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The $65B figure is one month's revenue times twelve; the quarter that closed produced $11.6B. Seven in ten Americans say they don't want a data center near them.
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