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# Daniela Amodei: Co-Founder and President of Anthropic

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Daniela Amodei is the President and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. While her brother Dario Amodei serves as CEO and is the more publicly visible figure, Daniela runs the operational, commercial, and go-to-market sides of one of the most consequential AI companies in the world. She is, in practical terms, the reason Anthropic functions as a business.

**Quick facts:** Daniela Amodei — President and co-founder of Anthropic. Previously VP of Operations at OpenAI. Before that: Stripe, Ropes & Gray. Co-founded Anthropic in 2021 with her brother Dario and five other former OpenAI researchers. Responsible for Anthropic’s business operations, sales, partnerships, and go-to-market strategy.

## Who Is Daniela Amodei?

Daniela Amodei is the President of Anthropic, the AI safety company she co-founded in 2021 alongside her brother Dario Amodei and a group of senior researchers who departed OpenAI together. While Dario leads research and product as CEO, Daniela leads everything that keeps the company running as a viable business: revenue, partnerships, hiring, operations, and the commercial strategy behind Claude.

She is among the most powerful operators in the AI industry — not a figurehead co-founder, but the executive who built Anthropic’s commercial foundation from zero while the research team focused on the models.

## Background and Career Before Anthropic

Before Anthropic, Daniela spent years in operational and business roles that would prove directly relevant to building a fast-moving AI company from scratch.

She attended Dartmouth College, where she studied economics. Her early career included a position at Ropes & Gray, a prominent law firm, before moving into the technology sector. She joined Stripe — the payments infrastructure company — where she worked in business operations during a period of significant growth for the company.

The pivotal move came when she joined OpenAI as VP of Operations. She was one of the senior leaders who left OpenAI in 2020 and 2021 along with her brother Dario to found Anthropic. That cohort included several of OpenAI’s most senior researchers and operators, making it one of the most significant team departures in AI industry history.

## Role at Anthropic

As President, Daniela’s domain at Anthropic covers the business side of the company end to end. Where Dario focuses on research direction, safety philosophy, and model development, Daniela owns:

- **Revenue and commercial growth** — enterprise sales, partnerships, and the Claude business
- **Go-to-market strategy** — how Anthropic positions and sells Claude to individuals, developers, and enterprises
- **Operations** — the internal systems and processes that le

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