{"id":927,"date":"2026-06-07T18:44:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:44:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:44:46","slug":"anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-spends-40-of-his-time-on-culture-not-ai-including-a-biweekly-vision-quest-where-he-ditches-corpo-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spends 40% of his time on culture, not AI\u2014including a biweekly \u2018vision quest\u2019 where he ditches \u2018corpo speak\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u201cI probably spend a third, maybe 40%, of my time making sure the culture of Anthropic is good,\u201d Amodei said in an interview on the <em>Dwarkesh Podcast<\/em> in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=925\">Gen Zers are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence\u2014professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amodei\u2019s comments offer a rare window into how one of tech\u2019s most closely watched CEOs manages a company that now sports 2,500 employees and this week confidentially filed for an IPO after raising $65 billion in a recent funding round that valued it at $965 billion.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Anthropic has expanded, it has become nearly impossible for Amodei to weigh in on every technical and product decision, he said. So rather than dig into the finer details, he has tried to focus on the bigger picture: making sure his employees like working for Anthropic; that the company\u2019s mission and values are clear; and that all workers are working toward the same mission instead of against one another, as he said happens at other unnamed AI companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019ve done an extraordinarily good job, even if not perfect, of holding the company together, making everyone feel the mission, that we\u2019re sincere about the mission, and that everyone has faith that everyone else there is working for the right reason,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Key to Amodei\u2019s approach to culture is constant communication and extreme sincerity. Amodei said he speaks candidly about his vision for the company in a biweekly all-hands he called a \u201cDVQ,\u201d short for Dario Vision Quest\u2014a name he tried to resist at first because of its potential psychedelic connotation.<\/p>\n<p>During these meetings, Amodei stands in front of the entire company with a three- or four-page document and speaks for an hour on topics ranging from product strategy to geopolitics, as well as the broader AI industry. A large fraction of the company attends, either in person or virtually, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=923\">Zohran on Trump becoming first sitting president at the NBA Finals: \u2018We\u2019re excited to welcome anyone and everyone who\u2019s rooting for the Knicks\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amodei says he speaks plainly with his employees, answering questions and avoiding what he calls \u201ccorpo speak.\u201d He also has an active Slack channel where he writes responses to employee questions or his own thoughts about the company throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>Amodei\u2019s blunt approach to communication echoes the \u201cradical transparency\u201d leadership style pioneered by Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio. As part of his management style, Dalio encourages employees to give honest feedback even to senior members of the firm. Dalio argues the method helps improve the company\u2019s standards, but some critics have said allowing a no-holds-barred culture of communication could potentially make employees more closed off.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Anthropic earlier this year updated its Responsible Scaling Policy, dropping its pledge not to continue training its AI after it had reached a certain level of capability unless it could guarantee its safety measures were adequate. Anthropic said the change was driven by competitive pressures and a lack of regulations. Critics have implied the move shifts Anthropic\u2019s mission away from the safety-first identity on which it was founded.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet, when it comes to company issues, Amodei said on the podcast, he takes an \u201cunfiltered\u201d approach. Inside Anthropic, he can be completely candid with his employees about the company\u2019s direction and the issues it faces. That openness, he said, is what keeps everyone on the same page\u2014even as pressure may be building externally to reach profitability and outcompete other companies like ChatGPT maker OpenAI.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe point is to get a reputation of telling the company the truth about what\u2019s happening, to call things what they are, to acknowledge problems, to avoid the sort of \u2018corpo speak,\u2019 the kind of defensive communication that often is necessary in public,\u201d he said. \u201cBut if you have a company of people who you trust\u2014and we try to hire people that we trust\u2014then you can really just be entirely unfiltered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=921\">Repair Cafes, the Buy Nothing Project and tool libraries are part of an\u00a0anticonsumerism trend rejecting mass-produced disposable goods<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this story was published on Fortune.com on Feb. 26, 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>More on tech:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>AI is primarily a blue state problem, and Democrats have the most to lose amid brewing voter \u2018techlash\u2019<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX and Anthropic are about to go public\u2014and your 401(k) may be forced to buy in<\/li>\n<li>A dying satellite company sold spectrum to Elon Musk\u2014and turned $11.1 billion in SpaceX stock into the Fortune 500\u2019s best shareholder return<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dario Amodei says constant communication and avoiding &#8220;corpo speak&#8221; keep Anthropic&#8217;s 2,500 employees aligned as the AI race heats up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chief-executive-officer-ceo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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