# Where Anthropic's people came from

Researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-10-18. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/talent

## Arrivals by year and the job each person came from

| Joined | Person | Came from |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | [Daniela Amodei](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/daniela-amodei) | OpenAI, VP of Safety and Policy |
| 2021 | [Dario Amodei](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/dario-amodei) | OpenAI, Vice President of Research |
| 2021 | [Jared Kaplan](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jared-kaplan) | OpenAI, Research Consultant |
| 2021 | [Jack Clark](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jack-clark) | OpenAI, Policy Director |
| 2021 | [Chris Olah](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/chris-olah) | OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff |
| 2021 | [Ben Mann](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ben-mann) | OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff |
| 2021 | [Sam McCandlish](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sam-mccandlish) | OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff |
| 2021 | [Tom Brown](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/tom-brown) | OpenAI, Research Engineering Lead, GPT-3 |
| 2021 | [Nick Joseph](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/nick-joseph) | OpenAI, Member of Technical Staff |
| 2021 | [Amanda Askell](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/amanda-askell) | OpenAI, Research Scientist (Policy) |
| 2022 | [Brian Israel](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/brian-israel) | Domaine Labs, Founder |
| 2022 | [Ethan Perez](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ethan-perez) | Straight from university (PhD in Natural Language Processing (Computer Science), New York University) |
| 2022 | [Logan Graham](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/logan-graham) | 10 Downing Street, Special Adviser to the Prime Minister |
| 2023 | [Sasha de Marigny](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sasha-de-marigny) | Thrive Capital, VP, Brand and Communications |
| 2023 | [Kate Jensen](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/kate-jensen) | Stripe, Head of Platform Sales |
| 2023 | [Jason Clinton](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jason-clinton) | Google, Led Chrome infrastructure security; earlier worked on ChromeOS and Android Pay |
| 2023 | [Evan Hubinger](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/evan-hubinger) | Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Research Fellow |
| 2023 | [Joshua Batson](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/joshua-batson) | CZ Biohub, Senior Research Scientist |
| 2023 | [Alex Albert](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/alex-albert) | Straight from university |
| 2024 | [Mike Krieger](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/mike-krieger) | Artifact, Co-founder & CTO |
| 2024 | [Krishna Rao](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/krishna-rao) | Fanatics, Chief Financial Officer, Fanatics Commerce |
| 2024 | [Hannah Pritchett](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/hannah-pritchett) | Binti, VP of People |
| 2024 | [Jan Leike](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jan-leike) | OpenAI, Head of Alignment; co-led the Superalignment team |
| 2024 | [Boris Cherny](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/boris-cherny) | Meta, Principal Software Engineer |
| 2024 | [Kyle Fish](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/kyle-fish) | Eleos AI Research, Co-founder |
| 2024 | [Jascha Sohl-Dickstein](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jascha-sohl-dickstein) | Google, Senior → Staff → Senior Staff → Principal Research Scientist |
| 2024 | [Durk Kingma](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/durk-kingma) | Google, Research Scientist, Google Brain / DeepMind |
| 2024 | [Julian Schrittwieser](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/julian-schrittwieser) | Google DeepMind, Core scientist for about ten years |
| 2025 | [Ami Vora](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/ami-vora) | Faire, CPO |
| 2025 | [Rahul Patil](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/rahul-patil) | Stripe, CTO |
| 2025 | [Paul Smith](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/paul-smith) | ServiceNow, Special Advisor |
| 2025 | [Vitaly Gudanets](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/vitaly-gudanets) | Netflix, CISO |
| 2025 | [Chris Ciauri](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/chris-ciauri) | Unily, Chief Executive Officer |
| 2025 | [Jeff Bleich](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/jeff-bleich) | Cruise, Chief Legal and Policy Officer |
| 2025 | [Holden Karnofsky](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/holden-karnofsky) | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Visiting Scholar |
| 2025 | [Sholto Douglas](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/sholto-douglas) | DeepMind, Research Engineer |
| 2025 | [Nicholas Carlini](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/nicholas-carlini) | Google DeepMind, research scientist |
| 2026 | [Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/mariano-florentino-cuellar) | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, President |
| 2026 | [Eric Boyd](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/eric-boyd) | Microsoft, President AI Platform |
| 2026 | [Andrej Karpathy](https://www.autumn.ai/resources/anthropic/people/andrej-karpathy) | Eureka Labs, Founder |

## The Stripe pipeline: 4 of the 15 people on Anthropic's leadership page worked at Stripe

- Daniela Amodei, now President. At Stripe: technical recruiting, then risk, 2013–2018. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-amodei-790bb22a)
- Rahul Patil, now CTO. At Stripe: head of infrastructure, rising to CTO, 2020–2025. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rahul-patil-a0944836)
- Sasha de Marigny, now Chief Brand and Communications Officer. At Stripe: head of brand communications; co-built Stripe Press, 2015–2022. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sashademarigny)
- Hannah Pritchett, now Chief People Officer. At Stripe: risk, payments operations and talent, seven years. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-pritchett-261b0a74)
- Kate Jensen, now Head of Americas. At Stripe: built sales teams, ending as head of platform sales, 2016–2023. [1](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateearle)

Leadership page: https://www.anthropic.com/company/leadership