根据《The Information》周四的报道，Anthropic希望其七位联合创始人能够在公司上市后继续掌控公司的控制权。该公司正在请求股东批准为这七位创始人设立一种特殊的股票类别。首席执行官达里奥·阿莫迪（Dario Amodei）和他的六位联合创始人将共同持有公司50.1%的投票权，从而在大多数公司事务上拥有决定权。
Anthropic wants its seven co-founders to keep control of the company after it goes public. The company is asking shareholders to approve a special class of shares for them, The Information reported on Thursday. Chief executive Dario Amodei and his six co-founders would hold a combined 50.1% of the vote on most corporate matters.
据TechCrunch的康妮·洛伊佐斯（Connie Loizos）报道，这份由科里·温伯格（Cory Weinberg）、瓦利达·保（Valida Pau）和朱莉娅·霍恩斯坦（Julia Hornstein）撰写的报告指出，股东投票将在“未来几天内”进行。只要这七位创始人中的至少三人仍持有公司的最低持股比例，他们就能继续掌握控制权。Anthropic尚未就这份报告发表公开评论，而TNW也没有对该报告进行独立核实。
The report, by Cory Weinberg, Valida Pau and Julia Hornstein, says the shareholder vote will come “in the coming days”, according to TechCrunch’s Connie Loizos. The control would last as long as at least three of the seven keep a minimum stake. Anthropic has not commented publicly on the report, and TNW has not independently verified it. Control without the shares The seven co-founders each own about 2% of the company, Amodei included, TechCrunch reported. The new shares would carry no extra economic value. Their only purpose would be to keep the group in charge once the stock starts trading.
TechCrunch还指出，这七位联合创始人（包括阿莫迪在内）目前各自持有公司约2%的股份；这些新发行的股票没有任何额外的经济价值，其唯一目的就是在公司股票开始交易后确保这个团队能够继续掌管公司。
The founders have also pledged to give away most of their wealth. Amodei announced it in January in an essay on the risks of AI, in a section on how AI could concentrate economic power.
这些创始人还承诺将自己的大部分财富捐赠出去。阿莫迪在1月份的一篇关于人工智能风险的文章中宣布了这一计划，他在文章中提到：“我们需要担心的是那种会导致社会分裂的财富集中现象。”
“All of Anthropic’s co-founders have pledged to donate 80% of our wealth,” Amodei wrote.
TechCrunch进一步指出，该计划并不会让创始人完全控制董事会的决策权。Anthropic设立的“长期利益信托基金”（Long-Term Benefit Trust）仍将负责选拔大多数董事。这个信托基金是Anthropic为监督公司运营而设立的独立机构，今年7月该信托基金还聘请了前美联储主席本·伯南克（Ben Bernanke）作为成员。此外，创始人的董事会席位将从目前的两个增加到三个；员工们也将获得属于自己的股票类别，以便在某些问题上拥有更大的发言权。
“The thing to worry about is a level of wealth concentration that will break society,” he wrote in the same essay. The plan does not hand the founders the whole board. Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust would still choose most of the directors, TechCrunch reported. The trust is the independent body Anthropic set up to oversee its mission, and it added former Fed chair Ben Bernanke in July. The founders’ own board seats would grow from two to three. Employees would also get their own class of stock to break ties on some issues.
Palantir模式 《The Information》将这种结构称为“Palantir式”。Palantir于2020年上市。其创始人亚历克斯·卡普、斯蒂芬·科恩和彼得·蒂尔通过投票信托持有的F类股份保留了投票控制权。Palantir的招股说明书称，这些股份的有效性还取决于创始人是否维持最低持股比例。
The Palantir model The Information’s headline calls the structure “Palantir-style”. Palantir listed in 2020. Its founders, Alex Karp, Stephen Cohen and Peter Thiel, kept voting control through Class F shares held in a voting trust. Those shares also depend on the founders keeping a minimum stake, Palantir’s prospectus says.
招股说明书称，F类股份“将赋予这些创始人控制我们股本总投票权最高49.999999%的能力”。
The Class F shares “will give these Founders the ability to control up to 49.999999% of the total voting power of our capital stock”, the prospectus says.
科技公司创始人普遍采用超级投票权股份。马克·扎克伯格以这种方式控制Meta，埃文·斯皮格尔在Snap也采取了同样的做法。SpaceX的IPO文件显示，埃隆·马斯克及内部人士在那里拥有大部分投票权。TechCrunch指出，正是这种集团式方案让Anthropic的计划与众不同。
Super-voting shares are common among tech founders. Mark Zuckerberg keeps control of Meta that way, and Evan Spiegel does the same at Snap. SpaceX’s IPO filing showed that Elon Musk and insiders keep most of the vote there. The group approach is what sets Anthropic’s plan apart, TechCrunch noted.
在上市前，Anthropic已选择纳斯达克作为上市地点。TechCrunch指出，该公司5月进行的一轮融资对其估值达到9650亿美元。该公司还预计调整后营业利润将连续第二个季度实现盈利。
Ahead of the listing Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its listing. A funding round in May valued it at $965bn, TechCrunch noted. The company also expects a second straight quarter of adjusted operating profit.
如果股东批准这一安排，只有当三名创始人中持有最低所需股份的人数少于三人时，他们的控制权才会终止。尚未有任何报道披露这一最低持股比例的具体数值。
If shareholders approve, the founders’ control would end only when fewer than three of them hold the minimum stake. No report has given the size of that stake.