| ▲ | HarHarVeryFunny 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yeah, up from $1B a year ago. Two years ago, I considered investing in Anthropic when they had a valuation of around $18B and messed up by chickening out (it was available on some of the private investor platforms). Up 20x since then ... It was always obvious that Anthropic's focus on business/API usage had potential to scale faster than OpenAI's focus on ChatGPT, but the real kicker has been Claude Code (released a year ago). It'd be interesting to know how Anthropic's revenue splits between Claude Code, or coding in general, other API usage, and chat (which I assume is small). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Esophagus4 15 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eh, I think you made the best decision you could given the info you had. I’ve poked around on EquityZen and was shocked at how little information is available to investors. In some cases I did not even see pitch decks, let alone one of the first companies I looked at had its top Google result: CEO recently arrested for fraud and business is almost worthless now. Unless you are willing to take a blind punt or have insider information, those platforms are opaque minefields and I don’t fault you for not investing. Matt Levine has a fun investment test: when presented with an opportunity, you should always ask, “and why are you offering it to me?” Meaning, by the time it gets offered to retail investors (even accredited ones are retail) we’re getting the scraps that no one else wants. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | winfortheworld 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
what are the private investor platform you mentioned ? and what are the requirements to join in? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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