@BrianRoemmele: Just got off the phone with an early Anthropic investor. The situation seems worse than I thought. Morale with investor…

X AI KOLs Timeline News

Summary

A tweet from Brian Roemmele claims an early Anthropic investor described severe morale problems, cult-like internal culture, and isolated leadership, suggesting the AI company is struggling internally despite its prominence.

Just got off the phone with an early Anthropic investor. The situation seems worse than I thought. Morale with investors and employees are at an all time low. Anger is rising at the more and more doctoral leadership that is now isolated. They asked for my advice and opinion on how they survive as an independent company. We talked about the cult they tried to hold on to as the company grew and they had no idea how bad the belief system was inside the core group. I warned them before they invested. What’s really changed is kids grow up and get married and have kids. They mature their political and philosophical views, many leave the cult-like thinking they had as a collage kid. This maturity and new hires that don’t buy into the cult have built a hidden communication system to vent their anger over the increasingly hostile upper priest class. I had them make connections to engineers that work there for more insights. Many feel stuck between losing the equity they built and mental health of the cult. I hate to see this and believe Dario means well in his own mind but unfortunately has not thought out how the real world works. And money has insulted him from anyone that could reach him. It is unfortunately a story as old as time. This is one of the premier AI companies and they are flaming out. It is not good for anyone other than countries that want to see the US fail. The investor conceded I was right about how the philosophy these folks held would be their undoing when they asked long ago. I pray for a good outcome for all.
Original Article
View Cached Full Text

Cached at: 08/14/26, 01:26 AM

Just got off the phone with an early Anthropic investor.

The situation seems worse than I thought. Morale with investors and employees are at an all time low. Anger is rising at the more and more doctoral leadership that is now isolated.

They asked for my advice and opinion on how they survive as an independent company.

We talked about the cult they tried to hold on to as the company grew and they had no idea how bad the belief system was inside the core group.

I warned them before they invested. What’s really changed is kids grow up and get married and have kids. They mature their political and philosophical views, many leave the cult-like thinking they had as a collage kid. This maturity and new hires that don’t buy into the cult have built a hidden communication system to vent their anger over the increasingly hostile upper priest class.

I had them make connections to engineers that work there for more insights. Many feel stuck between losing the equity they built and mental health of the cult.

I hate to see this and believe Dario means well in his own mind but unfortunately has not thought out how the real world works. And money has insulted him from anyone that could reach him.

It is unfortunately a story as old as time.

This is one of the premier AI companies and they are flaming out. It is not good for anyone other than countries that want to see the US fail.

The investor conceded I was right about how the philosophy these folks held would be their undoing when they asked long ago.

I pray for a good outcome for all.

Similar Articles

Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

TechCrunch AI

Anthropic is moving toward a public IPO filing after raising $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, with co-founder Daniela Amodei citing the need for capital to train frontier models and serve inference at scale. The company reported $47 billion in annualized revenue as of May 2026, and has partnered with xAI for $1.25 billion per month in compute capacity rather than building its own data centers.