Anthropic's IPO could create 1,200 millionaire employees

BlockBeats news, November 10 - According to a report by The Observer, the financial platform Hill estimated based on the equity distribution among employees in different departments of Anthropic. Comprehensive calculations show that Anthropic disclosed a total of 5,300 employees in its S-1 filing submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, of which about 4,250 are expected to become millionaires due to the company's IPO, accounting for 80% of the total workforce. This figure does not come from official statistics. For comparison, when SpaceX went public in June this year, it also made over 4,400 current and former employees millionaires, but at that time the company had a total workforce of about 22,000. In contrast, Anthropic's proportion of employees becoming millionaires is much higher.

The seven co-founders are not included. Since Anthropic's seven co-founders were already billionaires before the IPO, they are not counted in the number of new millionaires. According to Forbes estimates, each of the seven founders holds about 1.4% of the company's shares.

Based on Hill's further estimates of employee stock holdings and potential gains, about 50 early employees and management members are expected to gain wealth exceeding $100 million after the IPO. This is mainly due to the equity incentives they received as "founding employees." These employees account for less than 1% of the total company workforce, and when they joined Anthropic, the company had not yet proven its commercial value.

Secondly, about 1,200 highly skilled employees and researchers, thanks to equity incentives included in their compensation packages, are expected to accumulate wealth exceeding $10 million, accounting for about a quarter of the total workforce. In addition, another approximately 3,000 employees with relatively lower compensation levels are expected to have stock holdings valued at over $1 million after the IPO. The above figures are all calculated based on the company's assumed valuation of $1.5 trillion.