Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Only Manages One Direct Report

For all of his influence at Anthropic PBC, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei has just one direct report at the artificial intelligence company.

That’s unusual in the technology sector, where many leaders are eliminating layers of management and widening spans of control. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has around half a dozen direct reports, while Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang says he has 60 people reporting to him.

Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic

Photographer: Jason Henry/Bloomberg

Anthropic is testing a different version of leadership, one where the CEO protects nearly all of his time for big-picture conversations, organizational culture, and giving input on research direction and strategy, ...