Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

If founders and other business leaders weren’t already jealous of Dario Amodei, who heads one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world — currently valued by private investors at about a trillion dollars, just over five years after its founding — they will be seriously jealous now.

In a new to sit with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang reveals he has only one direct report; that’s his chief of staff. All others on Anthropic’s executive team report to his sister, co-founder and president Daniela Amodei, who manages day-to-day operations.

Anyone who has led a large team knows that the human side of the job consumes everything else. Amodei’s arrangement gives him the freedom to focus almost entirely on strategy, culture, research direction and development compelling essays about the future of civilization (with footnotes). “It’s incredibly liberating,” he tells Chang.

It is a highly unusual structure. OpenAI’s Sam Altman reportedly has about half a dozen direct reports, which is much more standard, while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang – another extreme outlier – has many dozens.