After the Anthropic IPO we will either see one of the widest spread sprees of philanthropy giving in American history, or we will find out the culture interview was mostly for show.
4:12 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 60K Views
Cody Blakeney, Arcee AI research lead, argues a future Anthropic IPO will test whether its mission-driven culture is superficial
He expects massive philanthropy or an exposed hiring culture.
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Users dismissed Anthropic's culture interviews as damage control and predicted the IPO would expose philanthropy as pretense with funds going to investors instead of causes.
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alth0u🧶@alth0u
@code_star what do you think culture means lol
Cody Blakeney@code_star
After the Anthropic IPO we will either see one of the widest spread sprees of philanthropy giving in American history, or we will find out the culture interview was mostly for show.
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elle 🎀@elletwocache
@code_star 100s of people with similar worldviews have been at jane street and accumulated tons of money, have you noticed their outsize philanthropy yet
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
After the Anthropic IPO we will either see one of the widest spread sprees of philanthropy giving in American history, or we will find out the culture interview was mostly for show.
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
@elletwocache No, but to be fair I haven’t been following shrimp futures markets closely.
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elle 🎀@elletwocache
@code_star google “ftx foundation” for examples of the rationalist style of charitable giving
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Agustin Lebron@AgustinLebron3
@elletwocache @code_star There's actually a lot of it, but they're famously publicity averse so you dont hear about it.
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Evan@evan_thayer
@code_star hahahahhhahahhhaha which way do you think it's going to go? I think you'll get 1,000 VCs, not 1,000 philanthropists
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
@elletwocache Like investing in Anthropic?
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Hyogʰneh@jagunanthi
@code_star they have an extremely generous equity donation matching program which a large fraction of employees donate to
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Pete Cawley@corsix
@elletwocache @code_star Outsized as in funding AK-47s for a coup in South Sudan?
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elle 🎀@elletwocache
@code_star with stolen money, but i don’t count that as philanthropy
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T Ay.@ayedtay
@code_star Actually irrelevant
Most of the gains are in a few hands Those people didn’t have to pass a culture interview
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
@ayedtay still hundreds or thousands of people north of $10M in equity getting access to liquidity.
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Igor Kotenkov@stalkermustang
@code_star Do we know what percentage of staff has chosen to increase the equity but pledge to donate it to charity?
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Vijay Anand@vijayanands
@code_star If the Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI IPOs go through, the US market is pretty much owned by these three companies - and all have a very high degree of "trust me bro" baked in.
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snow@snowclipsed
@code_star +1 reward
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Kaidu@xkaidus
@code_star real chance its both, right? huge checks to pet causes and zero change to how the place actually operates
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T Ay.@ayedtay
@code_star Yes but as crazy as this sounds those won’t really move the needle when total equity is worth 2T
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Azael@theazaelov
@code_star honestly id bet on option 2
the interviews look good but the check signing room tells a different story
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Cody Blakeney@code_star
@ayedtay What do you mean? What relevance does that have to my statement at all?
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