Anthropic’s Dario Amodei spends up to 40% of his time on company culture, not products, because he says it’s the only thing that will win the AI race

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the most important thing he does each day has nothing to do with training AI models or shipping products. Instead, he spends almost half his time working on company culture, he said.

“I probably spend a third, maybe 40%, of my time making sure the culture of Anthropic is good,” Amodei said in an interview on the Dwarkesh Podcast in February.