A list of surprising and mind-boggling stats from this conversation:

• NDR is over 500% on an annualized basis

• Anthropic's first dollar of revenue came in March of 2023

• Over 90% of code inside Anthropic is written by Claude Code

• The head of tax is the heaviest token user on the finance team

• Run rate revenue went from $9B to $30B in one quarter (reportedly, on pace for $50B by end of next month)

• Cowork is growing faster than Claude Code did at the same point in its life

• Signed two double-digit million-dollar commits in a 20-minute Uber ride to the podcast

• Krishna spends 30-40% of his time on compute decisions

• 9 of the Fortune 10 are customers

• $100B combined commitment of compute

• 30 different product and feature releases in January alone

• A prior model found 22 security vulnerabilities in an open source codebase; Mythos found 250

• The finance team has built a library of over 70 Claude skills specific to finance

• Anthropic raised $75 billion since Krishna joined two years ago

• The day of the Series E first close was the day the DeepSeek news broke

• When Meta and others made huge poaching offers, Anthropic lost two people on the technical side while other labs lost dozens

• All seven co-founders are still at the company

• The company is just over five years old

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