If founders weren’t already jealous of Dario Amodei - who runs an AI company valued at roughly a trillion dollars just five years after founding - they’re about to be. In a sit-down with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, Amodei revealed he has exactly one direct report: his chief of staff. Everyone else on Anthropic’s executive team reports to his sister, co-founder and President Daniela Amodei, who handles day-to-day operations.
For anyone who has managed a large team, the people side of the job tends to consume everything else. Amodei’s arrangement frees him to focus almost entirely on strategy, culture, research direction, and sweeping essays on the future of civilization (with footnotes). “It’s incredibly freeing,” he told Chang.
It’s a highly unusual structure. For comparison, OpenAI’s Sam Altman reportedly has around half a dozen direct reports - far more standard - while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, another extreme outlier, has many dozens. Amodei’s approach is either genius delegation or a very elegant way to avoid awkward performance reviews with his sister.