Anthropic’s Dario Amodei is steering a possible $2 trillion IPO—but he says up to 40% of his time goes to making sure company culture is good

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the most important thing he does each day has nothing to do with training AI models or shipping products. Instead, he spends almost half his time working on company culture, he said.

“I probably spend a third, maybe 40%, of my time making sure the culture of Anthropic is good,” Amodei said in an interview on the Dwarkesh Podcast in February. 

Amodei’s comments offer a rare window into how one of tech’s most closely watched CEOs manages a company that now sports 3,500 employees and is set to go public as early as next month in an IPO that could reach $2 trillion—potentially surpassing SpaceX’s recent $1.77 trillion public debut to become the most valuable of all time.

Ahead of its potential public listing, the company told investors this week that its third quarter revenue had jumped 50% to $16.8 billion and that the company was profitable on an adjusted basis, the Financial Times reported.

As Anthropic has expanded and its revenue has skyrocketed, it has become nearly impossible for Amodei to weigh in on every technical and product decision, he said. So rather than dig into the finer details, he has tried to focus on the bigger picture: making sure his employees like working for Anthropic; that the........

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