Just one subordinate, Anthropic CEO dedicates half of his energy to building company culture According to Beating monitoring, Anthropic is implementing extreme flat management, with CEO Dario Amodei only managing the personal Chief of Staff. This is in stark contrast to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's model of having around 6 subordinates and Nvidia's Huang Renxun reporting directly to up to 60 people. The executive team reports to the CEO Daniela Amodei (Dario Amodei's sister), who is responsible for daily operations and reports to the board of directors. Dario Amodei, who has freed up his management time, focuses on his research direction and spends about half of his time communicating company culture with employees. Faced with a large influx of external employees due to rapid expansion, he made every effort to avoid the team copying the work habits of his former employer, and personally chaired employee meetings known as "vision questions" and wrote lengthy philosophical essays. In order to support business expansion, the company has introduced external executives such as Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao and Chief Business Officer Paul Smith in 2024 and 2025. Even though the senior management began to introduce professional managers, all seven co founders from the early days of the company remain in their positions to this day. [Original link]