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Anthropic files its ‘IPO’ — but all the key numbers are missing (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 5 days ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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FINAL final (1) USE THIS ONE.docx.pdf

by Amy Castor and David Gerard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFG2_uKlinw&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=pFG2_uKlinw - video backup
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20261027-anthropic-files-its-ipo-but-all-the-key-numbers-are-missing - podcast

time: 13 min 02 sec

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[–] CinnasVerses@awful.systems 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Owners of SpaceX or Anthropic equity have the potential to get rich if they sell about half of it soon after the IPO and buy a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds, and real estate. It is likely that many of the grifters and the true believers will not, because grifters often come to believe in their own patter and believers believe number must go up.

[–] lurker@awful.systems 4 points 4 days ago

Dumbass AI bros will probably still merrily buy away anyways. Because think about the Machine God and all those digital slaves instead of making any financial sense

[+] ohulancutash@feddit.uk -25 points 5 days ago (5 children)

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[–] corbin@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago

Of the numbers that are present in the document, a lot are unaudited and were not worked out according to GAAP — which S-1 numbers are supposed to conform to. There’s whole multi-page subsections of these BS numbers that you should not see in a credible S-1.

In the USA, GAAP is not optional for large businesses. GAAP is expected for businesses with thousands of customers at a minimum; Anthropic wants to scale up to millions of customers and therefore has zero excuses for non-GAAP numbers. Please be less UK-brained in the future, thanks.

[–] self@awful.systems 10 points 4 days ago

the motherfucker who’s about to gamble away my 401k on this crap has entered and left the chat

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i'm sure that you can point out the specific fragment of the article that you're disagreeing with.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 10 points 5 days ago

Also that subterfuge and misdirection are par for the course doesn't make this any better. If anything you'd expect such an obvious slum dunk trillion dollar world changing cancer curing robot god enabling infinity profit making technology to need much less of that to become attractive to investors.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

Got any other hot trading advice for us?