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Anthropic kicks off up to $6 billion employee share sale
Anthropic is launching a secondary share sale to allow eligible current and former employees (12+ months tenure) to sell stock at roughly a $350 billion valuation, with $5–6 billion in demand lined up from outside investors. The move follows a recent funding round valuing the company at $380 billion post-money and reflects a broader trend among AI leaders like OpenAI, Stripe, and SpaceX to use secondaries for liquidity in lieu of near-term IPOs. In a competitive AI talent market, structured liquidity has become a key retention and recruiting lever.
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