Tom Brown

“Menlo wrote an initial $10M+ check at a $4B valuation pre-revenue”

“We bumped into Tom Brown there, like the co-founder of Anthropic. And we were like, oh, it seems to be like a change of staff or something like that before it was made public that they changed a little bit the people talking to the White House.”

“Brown's technical expertise allowed him to sit in a room with government specialists and go line by line through how models behave under stress.”

“As discussions turned more technical, Anthropic policy chief Sarah Heck and Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown got more involved.”

“Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown brokers a truce with the US government.”

“Business Insider profiles Tom Brown, Anthropic's 39-year-old co-founder and chief compute officer, whose role securing chips and cloud capacity has expanded into diplomacy after he helped negotiate the Trump administration's rollback of export restrictions on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.”

“he helped negotiate the Trump administration's rollback of export restrictions on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5.”

“The Trump White House has reportedly warmed to Anthropic in negotiations over re-releasing Claude Fable 5 following the replacement of CEO Dario Amodei in meetings by co-founder Tom Brown and policy chief Sarah Heck — though officials are still seeking assurances that the model's guardrails can't be bypassed.”

“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.”