Scaling a start-up to a titan of industry requires founders to be in lockstep on fundraising, company structure, and the overall mission at hand. Daniela Amodei, the cofounder and president of Anthropic, knows this more than most—in 2021, she launched the wildly successful AI company alongside her brother, CEO Dario Amodei, and five other cofounders. And for entrepreneurs looking to replicate that kind of chemistry, Amodei has a trick to find compatible partners.
“Instead of starting a company together, go on vacation together,” Amodei recently said during a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. “Share a room with them. Be like, ‘How did that go?’ And if you’re like, ‘Man, all I wanna do is spend more time with you,’ great.”
