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Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao details revenue growth to $30 billion

Anthropic chief financial officer Krishna Rao joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue stood at $250 million. Revenue has since expanded to $30 billion while the firm raised roughly $75 billion. Rao oversees compute procurement and described how the finance team built 70 specialized Claude skills that automate statements and monthly reviews to 90 percent completion before human oversight.

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Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag#571inTech

Maybe the most fun (and certainly the biggest) month in ILtB history

- @alex_karnal on the future of bio - @dylan522p on compute - @ptj_official on … everything - @bchesky on ai founder mode - Krishna on what’s happening inside Anthropic

Thank you to the millions tuning in.

Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

Krishna Rao is the CFO of Anthropic, and this is his first podcast appearance.

He joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue was about $250M. Today it is $30B. He has helped raise ~$75B and is responsible for the procurement and allocation of compute.

I feel lucky

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Many users are praising the Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao podcast for its top-tier guests and insightful discussions on AI procurement, founder mode, and macro topics, calling the episodes epic and equivalent to an MBA education.

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Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

Krishna on the release of Mythos:

"People misconstrue it as just a cyber model.

It is an incredibly capable model across many different dimensions.

What we found was that cyber in particular was a place where it spiked.

We had an open-source code base that a prior model found 22 security vulnerabilities in, and Mythos then found 250.

That is kind of scary, but that informed the way in which we released it."

Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

Krishna Rao is the CFO of Anthropic, and this is his first podcast appearance.

He joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue was about $250M. Today it is $30B. He has helped raise ~$75B and is responsible for the procurement and allocation of compute.

I feel lucky

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Meghan Grady@MegRaeGrady

This interview is incred. Among the wild stats and decisions of hard-to-fathom scale discussed, Krishna Rao also sprinkles in top tier positioning like “we don’t really think about models as closed or open; we think about them as frontier or not.”

Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

Krishna Rao is the CFO of Anthropic, and this is his first podcast appearance.

He joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue was about $250M. Today it is $30B. He has helped raise ~$75B and is responsible for the procurement and allocation of compute.

I feel lucky

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Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

From my conversations with @dylan522p and Krishna, it is becoming more evident that both the demand for and returns on frontier models are high, if not intensifying

It has been somewhat of open question, whether the demand for frontier models will persist or whether companies can get enough value from older or open models

Krishna: "We think of models as frontier or not. The ones at the frontier clearly are capturing this economic value, driving meaningful ROI for customers.

Each model generation gives you the chance to do more, with it, to do it better, and more efficiently. Customers see that, and then they invest really heavily in more tokens with the newer models.

That's a core thesis of our business. That especially in enterprise, the returns to frontier intelligence are not slowing down.

Dylan: "No one gives a crap about GPT-4 class models. They want the frontier because the frontier lets them create the economically valuable things."

Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

Krishna Rao is the CFO of Anthropic, and this is his first podcast appearance.

He joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue was about $250M. Today it is $30B. He has helped raise ~$75B and is responsible for the procurement and allocation of compute.

I feel lucky

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Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan

@patrick_oshag @guruchahal @alex_karnal @dylan522p @ptj_official @bchesky Legend

Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

Maybe the most fun (and certainly the biggest) month in ILtB history

- @alex_karnal on the future of bio - @dylan522p on compute - @ptj_official on … everything - @bchesky on ai founder mode - Krishna on what’s happening inside Anthropic

Thank you to the millions tuning in.

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David Perlov@DavidPerlov

@patrick_oshag @alex_karnal @dylan522p @ptj_official @bchesky Bio, compute, macro, founder mode, AI procurement. This is the closest a podcast has come to charging for an MBA.

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Jon Turek@jturek18

@patrick_oshag @alex_karnal @dylan522p @ptj_official @bchesky Its really great stuff, I enjoyed all of them.

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Purvil@purvil_g

@patrick_oshag @alex_karnal @dylan522p @ptj_official @bchesky You are killing it! Love the show and the guests

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Andrew@Andrew664065

@patrick_oshag @alex_karnal @dylan522p @ptj_official @bchesky #1

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Kellan Grenier@kellangrenier

@patrick_oshag @alex_karnal @dylan522p @ptj_official @bchesky Epic month - keep it coming.

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Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag

@DavidPerlov @alex_karnal @dylan522p @ptj_official @bchesky MBA brought to you by @tryramp

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