Krishna Rao

Career

1. 
   Anthropic

   • Chief Financial OfficerMay 2024 – present
2. 
   Fanatics

   • Chief Financial Officer, Fanatics Commerce2023 – May 2024
3. 
   Cedar

   • Chief Financial Officer2021–2023
4. 
   Airbnb

   • Global Head of Corporate & Business Development2018–2021
   • Director, FP&A2015–2018
5. 
   Blackstone

   • Principal, Private Equity Group2011–2015
6. 
   Bain & Company

   • Senior Associate Consultant2007–2008
   • Associate Consultant2005–2007

Education

• J.D., Yale Law School
• A.B. in economics, Harvard College

Lesser-known facts

• Started law school during the Great Recession.
• Worked as a Bain & Company consultant in both San Francisco and New Delhi.
• Sat on the boards of three private companies and observed on a public company board as a Blackstone principal.
• Led or supported more than $10 billion in Airbnb financings, including its December 2020 IPO.
• Ran both the finance and legal functions as Cedar's first CFO.
• Said the $65 billion Series H would fund safety and interpretability research, more compute, and Anthropic's products and partnerships.

Interviews and talks

• Podcast interview with Patrick O'Shaughnessy on managing compute and scaling, his first podcast appearance (2026)podcasts.apple.com