#Series H
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Dario Amodei, 2% Owner of a $965B Company, Seeks Founder Control
Bloomberg reported on August 18, 2026, that Anthropic plans to give Dario Amodei and co-founders super-voting shares before the company's IPO, despite Amodei holding roughly 2% of the company. Anthropic's annualized revenue ran from $9 billion at end-2025 to $47 billion by May 2026, almost tripling its valuation from $380 billion to $965 billion in three months.
Dario Amodei's Bankruptcy Warning Preceded Anthropic's 80x Quarter
Dario Amodei warned in February 2026 that a one-year timing miss in AI demand forecasts could push Anthropic into bankruptcy. By May, the company had grown 80-fold in a single quarter, closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion valuation, and filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC.
The inference layer raised $763M the week Anthropic raised $65B. One story got told.
Groq, OpenRouter, Cognition, Asana+StackAI, Autodesk+MaintainX: five structural moves that the Anthropic headline buried.