Krishna Rao
CFO of Anthropic who joined around Series D; previously at Blackstone and led Airbnb's pandemic financing.
“We started the year with about $9 billion of run rate revenue, and we ended the quarter with worth of $30 billion of run rate revenue.”
Source→“We also signed a deal with Amazon for Tranium for up to 5-gigawatts as well. It was an over $100 billion commitment.”
Source→“Right now within the company, 90 plus percent of our code is actually written by Cloud Code. A lot of Cloud Code's code is written by Cloud Code.”
Source→“I spent a lot of time with Tom Brown, our chief compute officer... I remember we went on a walk and he started to tell me about his vision for the future of the company.”
Source→“Consistently, Dario has been a much better predictor of the revenue than I have.”
Source→“I'll be honest, it sounded crazy. You walk me all the way home... it turns out that a lot of what Tom said during that walk has come to fruition... everything is going to happen much quicker than we think.”
Source→“Ramp understands that no one wants to spend hours chasing receipts, reviewing expense reports, and checking for policy violations. So they built their tools to give that time back, using AI to automate 85% of expense reviews with 99% accuracy.”
Source→“I'm not really hiring you as like a direct report of mine. I'm hiring you as a partner and I want you to treat it as a partnership, which means that there might be things that you and I disagree on. I want to hear that.”
Source→“Patrick O'Shaughnessy interviews Krishna Rao, CFO of Anthropic, on Invest Like the Best EP.471”
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