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Anthropic's Founders Seek Voting Control
25 Sep
Summary
- Anthropic proposes a new corporate structure for founder control.
- CEO Dario Amodei and co-founders would gain collective voting power.
- The structure mirrors a similar model implemented at Palantir.
Anthropic is pursuing a significant shift in its corporate governance, with plans to ask shareholders to approve a special class of shares. This move aims to grant CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders collective voting control over most corporate matters.
The proposed structure is modeled after Palantir's founder-control system. Under this new arrangement, the co-founders would collectively hold 50.1% of the voting power.
This voting majority would be contingent on at least three of the seven co-founders maintaining a specified minimum number of shares in Anthropic, as reported on Thursday, September 24.
The company, as of Thursday, September 24, was requesting shareholder approval for this governance change.
