Investors obsess over last private round price, but most value is created post-IPO
adityaag · x · 2026-10-31
adityaag pushes back on the fixation of investors and press on Anthropic's (ANT) last private round price, whether the IPO lands at $1.2T or $2T. He argues the real story is the extraordinarily impressive value creation within six years—and that most of any company's value ends up being created after it goes public.
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