Anthropic employee #400 will out-earn founders of multi-billion-dollar exits at IPO
rez0__ · x · 2026-10-29
A widely shared observation: even if you had two cofounders, raised from a top-tier VC, and exited for a few billion dollars, you still wouldn't make as much as employee #400 at Anthropic will from the IPO — a stark illustration of how large AI lab equity windfalls have become relative to typical successful startup outcomes.
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