Krishna Rao podcast appearance (2 minute read)

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Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao discusses the company's revenue growth from $250 million to $30 billion, fundraising of ~$75 billion, compute procurement, and use of Claude by the finance team in a recent podcast appearance.

Krishna Rao, Anthropic's CFO, joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue was about $250 million. It is now $30 billion. Rao helped raise around $75 billion and is responsible for the procurement and allocation of compute. This post links to an interview with Rao where he discusses compute, raising funds, pricing dynamics, how Anthropic's finance team uses Claude, Mythos, biotech and healthcare, and much more.
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