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Heading into a ~$965B IPO, Dario Amodei has exactly one direct report.

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Fortune reported June 18 that every senior leader except his chief of staff reports to president and co-founder Daniela Amodei, who runs day-to-day operations (Fortune). Amodei calls it "incredibly freeing," keeping himself on research and strategy. Whatever you make of the optics, it's a concrete data point on structuring a frontier org for focus at scale. Relevant if you're designing how a small leadership team holds together while the headcount around it explodes.

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