And all this time, he’s been growing the business while managing just one person: his chief of staff. Every other senior leader at Anthropic reports to company president Daniela Amodei, his sister and cofounder.
“It’s incredibly freeing,” Dario Amodei told Bloomberg. “It lets me do all the things that I do much more easily than I would otherwise.”
Especially at the center of the high-stakes AI boom, the arrangement is unconventional—after all the average CEO manages around 10 people. However, Amodei insists he doesn’t do any less work than other bosses—or even his sister who manages the rest of the firm’s 2,000-plus workforce.
“If you had to go through what I went through with DOW,” he listed as one example of the operational stressors he’s instead focused on, referring to the high-stakes negotiations with the Pentagon over AI safety.
Dario Amodei isn’t the only direct-report outlier—Nvidia’s Jensen Huang embraces managing 60 people
