Anthropic Founders to Cash Out $250M Each, Retain $18B Stakes After IPO
Summary
Each of Anthropic's seven founders plans to sell nearly 3.4 million shares in the IPO, pocketing about $250 million apiece, per a Tuesday filing. At the $70-$78 range midpoint, their remaining stakes are worth roughly $18 billion each — about 3.2% of Class A shares, or 22% of the company combined. The bigger story is control: an LLC the founders control is guaranteed 50.1% of most shareholder votes, which officially works out to only about 11.2% of overall voting power, and it lets them seat just under half the board. That structure means public shareholders get little say regardless of the $1.3 trillion target valuation. The IPO is aimed for next week, with roughly $80 billion or more raised across share sales and a private placement including Google. On the Hyperliquid pre-IPO market, the company is trading at a 23.7% premium to the top of its IPO range.
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