Daniela Amodei
Co-founder, Anthropic
Anthropic's president studied English literature on a flute scholarship and worked on a congressional campaign before joining Stripe as an early employee.
- Born
- 1987, San Francisco, California, United States
- Now
- President and co-founder, Anthropic
- Studied
- University of California, Santa Cruz
More on Daniela in Inside Anthropic.
Interesting facts
- Early start
Went to college on a classical flute scholarship and studied liberal arts and music before graduating in literature.
en.wikipedia.org - Before AI
Ran field operations for a winning 2012 congressional campaign in Pennsylvania, then briefly handled scheduling and communications for the new congressman in Washington.
en.wikipedia.org - Detour
Joined Stripe in 2013 as an early employee, starting as a technical recruiter and later managing risk and underwriting.
linkedin.com - Connection
At OpenAI she first managed the team while GPT-2 was being built, then moved into safety and policy.
en.wikipedia.org - Numbers
Says Anthropic had about 60 people when it built the first version of Claude.
stripe.com - In their words
Calls herself a generalist with no law or computer science degree, and says she would major in literature again.
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Career
- AnthropicPresident and co-founder2021 to now
- OpenAIVP of Safety and Policy2018–2020
- StripeRisk Manager2013–2018
- U.S. House of RepresentativesScheduling and Communications, Office of Rep. Matt Cartwright2013
- Matt Cartwright for CongressField Director2012
- IRIS Center, University of MarylandBusiness Development2010–2011
Education
- BA, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2009
