The trick: Announced Not Shipped
A pay package has payees.
Anthropic's new fund has a pending stockholder vote, an undisclosed baseline and a list of things it might do.
Anthropic designed a pay package for the public.
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Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a wholly owned LLC, subject to stockholder approval, with more at the board's discretion. It says it might make donations or direct distributions, with structure and governance to come.
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The trick has a name
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Receipts
- Supports therundown.ai:
Anthropic designs a pay package for the public
- Context therundown.ai:
But until money actually reaches anyone, it will be hard for the public to separate these moves from a convenient PR play.
- Refutes anthropic.com:
Subject to stockholder approval, 5% of Anthropic
- Context anthropic.com:
with an additional 2% added at the board
- Refutes anthropic.com:
we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations
- Supports anthropic.com:
It is common practice for tech companies to offer escalating compensation awards to their executives.
- Context anthropic.com:
In the coming months, we will share more about the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund
- Context anthropic.com:
None of the Anthropic equity held by the LLC will be used for lobbying or political giving
- Context cnbc.com:
above an undisclosed baseline, the company said
- Context cnbc.com:
The fund will be established as a wholly owned limited liability company
- Context cnbc.com:
is both mandatory to prepare for an initial public offering, and
- Context aljazeera.com:
Anthropic is preparing for what could be the largest public initial offering in history
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