{"id":1029973,"date":"2026-08-20T08:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029973"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:53:13","slug":"anthropic-prepares-supervoting-power-for-founders-ahead-of-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/anthropic-prepares-supervoting-power-for-founders-ahead-of-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic prepares supervoting power for founders ahead of IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate them from external shareholder pressure, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The company is also planning to maintain its existing body of \u200cnon-shareholder trustees with \u2060a \u2060special class of stock to elect a majority of members to the company&#8217;s board \u200bof directors, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>The specifics of the voting arrangements could not \u200bbe learned, and the plans could still change, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate them from external shareholder pressure, the Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. The company is also planning to maintain its existing body of \u200cnon-shareholder trustees with \u2060a \u2060special class of stock to elect a majority of members to the company&#8217;s board \u200bof directors, according to the report. The specifics of the voting arrangements could not \u200bbe learned, and the plans could still change, the report said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029987,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029973\/revisions\/1029987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}