19 August 2026

Anthropic plans supervoting shares for founders before IPO

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  • Anthropic, the company behind Claude chatbot, will issue special stock to its co-founders with extra voting power per share.
  • This structure lets founders maintain control even after the company sells shares to the public in a planned IPO (initial public offering, when a private company becomes publicly traded).

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