Anthropic cap table: Amazon holds 17%, Google 14% — its seven cofounders own just 1-1.8% each
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-29
This post quotes an analysis of Anthropic's ownership: Amazon holds 17%, Google 14%, Nvidia is investing up to $10B, and Microsoft up to $5B. The seven cofounders each own only 1%–1.8%.
Key observations:
- Even at a $1T+ valuation, that's tiny compared to Zuckerberg's 13.6% of Meta, Bezos's 8.2% of Amazon, or Jensen Huang's 3.5% of Nvidia — roughly $130B in VC funding plus seven cofounders means heavy dilution.
- Big Tech isn't a standard VC: much of Google's and Amazon's investment round-trips back to them as payments for GCP and AWS.
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