Where Anthropic's people came from

The job each person left to join, the year they arrived, and the companies that keep feeding Anthropic its leaders and researchers.

10 of 10
early arrivals came straight from OpenAI
6
came from Google or DeepMind since 2023
4 of 15
leadership-page executives are ex-Stripe
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Where they worked before

The job each person left to join Anthropic, on the left, and the part of the company they work in now, on the right. Hover or tap a band to see who.

OpenAI 11Google or DeepMind 6Stripe 2Meta, Microsoft, Netflix 3Other companies 10Research, policy, government 6Straight from university 4Leadership 2Research 19Engineering and compute 6Product 5Go-to-market 3Operations, legal and policy 7

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Who joined when, and from where

Each of the 40 profiled people with a public start date, by the year they joined and the job they came from directly. Ten of the ten who joined by 2021 came straight from OpenAI; since 2023, six have come from Google or DeepMind.

Daniela Amodei, joined 2020 from OpenAI
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Dario Amodei, joined 2021 from OpenAIJared Kaplan, joined 2021 from OpenAIJack Clark, joined 2021 from OpenAIChris Olah, joined 2021 from OpenAIBen Mann, joined 2021 from OpenAISam McCandlish, joined 2021 from OpenAITom Brown, joined 2021 from OpenAINick Joseph, joined 2021 from OpenAIAmanda Askell, joined 2021 from OpenAI
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Brian Israel, joined 2022 from Domaine LabsEthan Perez, joined 2022 from universityLogan Graham, joined 2022 from 10 Downing Street
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Jason Clinton, joined 2023 from GoogleKate Jensen, joined 2023 from StripeSasha de Marigny, joined 2023 from Thrive CapitalEvan Hubinger, joined 2023 from Machine Intelligence Research InstituteJoshua Batson, joined 2023 from CZ BiohubAlex Albert, joined 2023 from university
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Jan Leike, joined 2024 from OpenAIJascha Sohl-Dickstein, joined 2024 from GoogleDurk Kingma, joined 2024 from GoogleJulian Schrittwieser, joined 2024 from Google DeepMindMike Krieger, joined 2024 from ArtifactKrishna Rao, joined 2024 from FanaticsHannah Pritchett, joined 2024 from BintiBoris Cherny, joined 2024 from MetaKyle Fish, joined 2024 from Eleos AI Research
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Sholto Douglas, joined 2025 from DeepMindNicholas Carlini, joined 2025 from Google DeepMindRahul Patil, joined 2025 from StripeAmi Vora, joined 2025 from FairePaul Smith, joined 2025 from ServiceNowVitaly Gudanets, joined 2025 from NetflixChris Ciauri, joined 2025 from UnilyJeff Bleich, joined 2025 from CruiseHolden Karnofsky, joined 2025 from Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, joined 2026 from Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceEric Boyd, joined 2026 from MicrosoftAndrej Karpathy, joined 2026 from Eureka Labs
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OpenAI Google or DeepMind Stripe Elsewhere

From OpenAI · 11

From Google or DeepMind · 6

From Stripe · 2

From elsewhere · 21

"Came from" is the job each person left to join, from their public career history; internships are left out. Start dates aren't public for Jack Lindsey and Trenton Bricken.

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Leaders who worked at Stripe

Four of the 15 people on Anthropic's own leadership page (as of 2026-10-18) worked at Stripe at some point, plus Kate Jensen, who runs the Americas. Some went somewhere else in between, so the arrivals chart above, which counts only the job people left to join, shows fewer.

Stripe5 Anthropic leaders, with 31+ years at Stripe between them.
  1. Daniela AmodeiAt Stripe: technical recruiting, then risk, 2013–2018At AnthropicPresident
  2. Rahul PatilAt Stripe: head of infrastructure, rising to CTO, 2020–2025At AnthropicCTO
  3. Sasha de MarignyAt Stripe: head of brand communications; co-built Stripe Press, 2015–2022At AnthropicChief Brand and Communications Officer
  4. Hannah PritchettAt Stripe: risk, payments operations and talent, seven yearsAt AnthropicChief People Officer
  5. Kate JensenAt Stripe: built sales teams, ending as head of platform sales, 2016–2023At AnthropicHead of Americas
Sources1anthropic.com2linkedin.com3linkedin.com4linkedin.com5linkedin.com6linkedin.com
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YC founders at Anthropic

31 Y Combinator founders work at Anthropic, and 22 of them joined in 2025 or later. From Autumn's own After YC census of 11,220 Y Combinator founders, then checked one by one: when each joined and how. Some came with their startup: Humanloop and Bun.

Tom BrownSolidStage and Grouper · W129 yrs
Brian KrauszGazeHawk · S10 · now at Stainless; Anthropic later acquired Stainless, in May 202613 yrs
Steven SyverudSycamore · W176 yrs
Nikhil BhargavaMetamanagement · S203 yrs
Igor KofmanHackPad · W1212 yrs
Alex RodriguesEmbark Trucks · W168 yrs
Jordan FisherStandard AI · S177 yrs
Noah LebovicFlowDeploy · W22 · now at Dual Use AI2 yrs
Peter LaiCrocodoc · W1015 yrs
Jon LiButter Systems · S1312 yrs
Kyle GrayStackMachine · S1312 yrs
Jonah KallenbachReverie Labs · W187 yrs
Jarred SumnerBun · S196 yrs
Thariq ShihiparMultiverse · W205 yrs
Jordan BurgessHumanloop · S205 yrs
Raza HabibHumanloop · S205 yrs
Peter HayesHumanloop · S205 yrs
Jack HopkinsPaperplane · W232 yrs
Effy ZhangBaserun · S232 yrs
Justin LederTurntable · W232 yrs
William HuRiskAngle · S241 yr
Grant MargerumcrmCopilot · W241 yr
John RobisonBits to Atoms · S241 yr
Tom BlomfieldGoCardless · S1115 yrs
Andrew GibianskyVoicery · W188 yrs
Parinaz FiroziZaam · W206 yrs
Ben FirshmanReplicate · W206 yrs
Jimmy E. ChanDropbase · W206 yrs
Stephanie VasquezLine.Build · S233 yrs
Dominic TullyPowder · W242 yrs

Join dates aren't public for Chris Lloyd, Erik Schluntz, Montana Low.

YC batch Joined Anthropic Startup acquired by Anthropic or team move Has since left
Sources1autumn.ai2ycombinator.com3ycombinator.com4linkedin.com5forbes.com6linkedin.com7anthropic.com8linkedin.com9linkedin.com10linkedin.com11linkedin.com12linkedin.com13linkedin.com14linkedin.com15news.hada.io16peterl.ai17linkedin.com18linkedin.com19ycombinator.com20linkedin.com21builtin.com22linkedin.com23techcrunch.com24humanloop.com
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Research papers the founders wrote before Anthropic

Ten papers from 2016 to 2020, with every listed author in order (58 people in all). Ten of GPT-3's 31 authors later joined Anthropic. Orange marks someone who later worked there.

2016Concrete ProblemsDario Amodei, later at AnthropicChris Olah, later at AnthropicJacob SteinhardtPaul ChristianoJohn Schulman, later at AnthropicDan Mané3 of 6
2017RL from human preferencesPaul ChristianoJan Leike, later at AnthropicTom Brown, later at AnthropicMiljan MarticShane LeggDario Amodei, later at Anthropic3 of 6
2018Building BlocksChris Olah, later at AnthropicArvind SatyanarayanIan JohnsonShan Carter, later at AnthropicLudwig SchubertKatherine YeAlexander Mordvintsev2 of 7
2019Fine-tuning from preferencesDaniel Ziegler, later at AnthropicNisan StiennonJeffrey Wu, later at AnthropicTom Brown, later at AnthropicAlec RadfordDario Amodei, later at AnthropicPaul ChristianoGeoffrey Irving4 of 8
2019GPT-2Alec RadfordJeffrey Wu, later at AnthropicRewon ChildDavid LuanDario Amodei, later at AnthropicIlya Sutskever2 of 6
2020GPT-3Tom Brown, later at AnthropicBen Mann, later at AnthropicNick RyderMelanie SubbiahJared Kaplan, later at AnthropicPrafulla DhariwalArvind NeelakantanPranav ShyamGirish SastryAmanda Askell, later at AnthropicSandhini AgarwalAriel Herbert-VossGretchen KruegerTom Henighan, later at AnthropicRewon ChildAditya RameshDaniel Ziegler, later at AnthropicJeffrey Wu, later at AnthropicClemens WinterChristopher HesseMark ChenEric SiglerMateusz LitwinScott GrayBenjamin ChessJack Clark, later at AnthropicChristopher BernerSam McCandlish, later at AnthropicAlec RadfordIlya SutskeverDario Amodei, later at Anthropic10 of 31
2020Summarize from feedbackNisan StiennonLong OuyangJeffrey Wu, later at AnthropicDaniel Ziegler, later at AnthropicRyan LoweChelsea VossAlec RadfordDario Amodei, later at AnthropicPaul Christiano3 of 9
2020Scaling laws (images, video)Tom Henighan, later at AnthropicJared Kaplan, later at AnthropicMor KatzMark ChenChristopher HesseJacob JacksonHeewoo JunTom Brown, later at AnthropicPrafulla DhariwalScott GrayChris HallacyBen Mann, later at AnthropicAlec RadfordAditya RameshNick RyderDaniel Ziegler, later at AnthropicJohn Schulman, later at AnthropicDario Amodei, later at AnthropicSam McCandlish, later at Anthropic8 of 19
2020Scaling lawsJared Kaplan, later at AnthropicSam McCandlish, later at AnthropicTom Henighan, later at AnthropicTom Brown, later at AnthropicBenjamin ChessRewon ChildScott GrayAlec RadfordJeffrey Wu, later at AnthropicDario Amodei, later at Anthropic6 of 10
2020Zoom InChris Olah, later at AnthropicNick CammarataLudwig SchubertGabriel GohMichael PetrovShan Carter, later at Anthropic2 of 6
Later joined Anthropic Co-founded Anthropic Joined, since left No record of joining
Sources1arxiv.org2arxiv.org3distill.pub4arxiv.org5cdn.openai.com6arxiv.org7arxiv.org8arxiv.org9arxiv.org10distill.pub
Every author, paper by paper, and the 14 who joined
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More on Anthropic

The peopleAnthropic's leadership team and org chartAn org chart of the co-founders, the executive team and the researchers behind Claude, with a profile for each.Open →The papersThe research papers behind AnthropicWho wrote the GPT-3 paper, the scaling laws and RLHF: every author of ten AI research papers from 2016 to 2020, and who later joined Anthropic.Open →The moneyAnthropic IPO, valuation and revenueEvery funding round, the revenue run-rate, who owns Anthropic and where the IPO stands.Open →
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How we made this

Research task Completed
Prompt

Research the people behind Anthropic… previous_employers (each with role and years)… joined_anthropic (year and month if known)… Give a credible source URL for every field…

Dated arrivals
40
Leadership page
15
Career sources
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Compiled from public sources by Autumn research tasks · Updated 2026-10-18

Photos: Daniela Amodei by Anthropic, Press photo · Rahul Patil by Anthropic, Press photo · Sasha de Marigny by Anthropic, Press photo · Hannah Pritchett by Anthropic, Press photo · Kate Jensen by Skift, Public photo

Researched by Autumn, the search for people and companies. Not affiliated with Anthropic.