{"id":1038781,"date":"2026-09-26T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038781"},"modified":"2026-09-26T08:11:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:41:37","slug":"anthropic-seeks-50-1-voting-control-for-cofounders-ahead-of-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/26\/anthropic-seeks-50-1-voting-control-for-cofounders-ahead-of-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic seeks 50.1% voting control for cofounders ahead of IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a new corporate structure that would award CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders a combined 50.1% of voting power, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the planning. <\/p>\n<p>The new arrangement, which emulates a founder-control structure at Palantir, would award the co-founders a special class of shares giving them collective voting control in most corporate matters, and would apply as long as three of the seven co-founders retain a minimum number of shares in the company, according to the report. <\/p>\n<p>Anthropic did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a new corporate structure that would award CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders a combined 50.1% of voting power, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the planning. The new arrangement, which emulates a founder-control structure at Palantir, would award the co-founders a special class of shares giving them collective voting control in most corporate matters, and would apply as long as three of the seven co-founders retain a minimum number of shares in the company, according to the report. Anthropic did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/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-1038781","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\/1038781","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=1038781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038782,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038781\/revisions\/1038782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}