Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt owns about 1% of Anthropic, a stake he got by putting tens of millions of dollars into its 2021 Series A, according to Bloomberg. Anthropic was valued at $461 million in that round, per PitchBook. If Anthropic goes public at the top-end valuation estimate of $2 trillion for its expected IPO this year, Schmidt’s stake would be worth as much as $20 billion, on top of a fortune already estimated at $57.5 billion. That 1% is about half the 2% stake co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei holds, as The Information reported in August.
