Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei
TechCrunch Marina Temkin
Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic. If the startup goes public at a huge valuation, that slice gets very expensive fast.
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Eric Schmidt may have a much bigger Anthropic payday than most people expected. Bloomberg reports that the former Google CEO owns about 1% of the AI lab, thanks to a Series A investment in 2021 that ran into the tens of millions of dollars.
That timing looks especially sharp now. PitchBook put Anthropic’s value at $461 million in that round, and the company is now widely expected to go public before the end of the year.
The surprising part is the comparison. Bloomberg’s estimate would leave Schmidt with roughly half of Dario Amodei’s reported 2% stake, even though Amodei is the co-founder and CEO.
The numbers get bigger fast from there. At top-end market estimates of as much as $2 trillion, Schmidt’s holding could add as much as $20 billion to his net worth, which Bloomberg currently pegs at $57.5 billion.
Schmidt has been a busy investor since leaving Google in 2011, putting money through Tomorrow Ventures, Innovation Endeavors Management, and Hillspire. His other AI bets include Mistral, General Intuition, and Reflection AI. Schmidt and Anthropic didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the part of AI that keeps getting dressed up as a revolution: a few early checks, a giant valuation, and suddenly the rich get a second moonshot. The industry loves to talk about democratizing intelligence; the cap table is doing the opposite. Bigger models, bigger exits, same old gravity.
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