Early Anthropic investor once headed to Singapore's GIC — now his VC bets define AI era
menhguin · x · 2026-10-28
On the SOTAwives podcast, Vivian Shen shares how her husband — early investor in Anthropic, Mistral, OpenRouter and Black Forest Labs, now founder of Amp — once planned to work for Singapore's sovereign wealth fund. Singaporean commenters note the irony: GIC was long the prestige career path for local students, while tech was considered a dumping ground — a hierarchy that has since flipped entirely.
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