> At that point you are beholden to your shareholders

No not really, you can issue two types of shares, the company founders can control a type of shares which has more voting power while other shareholders can get a different type of shares with less voting power.

Facebook, Google has something similar.

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what 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No, they still have to act in the interest of shareholders even if they have no voting power.

	▲	wsun19 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		As a PBC, the intent of the company is not only profit, but it's hard to analyze the counterfactuals of if Anthropic were a pure for-profit or a non-profit