Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has only one direct report

If founders and other business leaders weren’t already jealous of Dario Amodei, who sits at the top of one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies — currently valued by private market investors at about Trillion dollar mark Just over five years after its founding, they would be very envious now.

In new Sit With Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, he reveals he only has one direct report; This is for him 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.

Anyone who manages a large team knows that the human side of the job has a way of consuming everything else. Amodei’s arrangement frees him to focus almost entirely on strategy, culture, and research direction Comprehensive articles on the future of civilization (With footnotes). “It’s incredibly liberating,” he tells Chang.

It is a very unusual structure. OpenAI’s Sam Altman reportedly has about six direct reports, which is much more standard, while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang — another anomaly — has dozens.

Amodei also noted that Anthropic is unusual in another way: All seven of its co-founders are still working at the company, including the Amodei siblings. “We’re the only company in this space” that can make that claim, he said.