Anthropic 创始人在 IPO 前寻求投票控制权
Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
据 The Information 报道，Anthropic 正请求股东在近日批准一种股权结构，让 CEO Dario Amodei 与六位联合创始人持有的特殊股份合计拥有多数公司事务 50.1% 的投票权，前提是至少三人保持最低持股。这些特殊股份不带来额外经济收益，但会在公司上市后保留创始团队的控制权。Anthropic 的 Long-Term Benefit Trust 仍将选出多数董事会成员，创始人董事会席位将从两个增至三个，员工也将获得自己的股份以在某些议题上打破僵局。报道称七位联合创始人各仅持有公司约 2% 股份，并已承诺捐出 80% 的财富。成立五年的 Anthropic 在 5 月估值 9650 亿美元，近期在二级市场估值达 1.5 万亿美元，其即将进行的 IPO 预计将反映这一新估值。
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Anthropic’s founders want to stay in charge after the company goes public. According to The Information, the company is asking shareholders to approve a structure “in the coming days” that would give CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders special shares carrying a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters, as long as at least three of them keep a minimum stake.
This isn’t a new idea; super-voting shares are how Mark Zuckerberg kept control of Meta, and how Evan Spiegel maintained his hold of Snap. The list is long. What’s unusual is the group approach.
Why do it? The seven co-founders reportedly own just 2% of the company apiece, Amodei included, and have pledged to give away 80% of their wealth, a commitment the CEO announced in January alongside a warning that AI-driven wealth concentration could destabilize society. The new shares carry no extra economic value, but they’d preserve the group’s control once the company starts trading publicly.
There are twists, too: Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust would still choose most of the board; the founders’ board seats would grow from two to three; and employees would get their own stock to break ties on some issues.
Five-year-old Anthropic was valued at $965 billion in May. The company was recently valued at $1.5 trillion on the secondary market , and its upcoming IPO is expected to reflect that new valuation.