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Anthropic raises $13B Series F

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585 points meetpateltech | 3 comments | 02 Sep 25 16:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.449s | source
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jdoliner ◴[02 Sep 25 16:21 UTC] No.45105172[source]▶
Every round Anthropic raises twists the knife deeper in SBF. If only he could have survived the downturn his Antropic investment alone probably could have papered over the other loses.
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FinnLobsien ◴[02 Sep 25 16:27 UTC] No.45105292[source]▶
Always makes you wonder how many companies that are successes today could’ve had their SBF moment, but market conditions kept them afloat
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adamgordonbell ◴[02 Sep 25 16:29 UTC] No.45105329[source]▶
> In the early days of FedEx, Smith had to go to great lengths to keep the company afloat. In one instance, after a crucial business loan was denied, he took the company's last $5,000 to Las Vegas and won $27,000 gambling on blackjack to cover the company's $24,000 fuel bill.

Some who take on unreasonable risk will be among the most successful people alive. Most will lose eventually, long before you hear about them if they keep too many taking crazy risks.

Who is a great genius, and is who is just winning at "The Martingale entrepreneurial strategy"?

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1. matheist ◴[02 Sep 25 16:51 UTC] No.45105687[source]▶
You know, it only just now occurs to me to wonder if the blackjack story is the public sanitized version of "how I got $24k because I'm not allowed to tell you the real version"
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2. askafriend ◴[02 Sep 25 17:10 UTC] No.45105951[source]▶
Great thought, that seems very likely since so many "founder stories" are heavily spun tales.
3. Analemma_ ◴[02 Sep 25 17:15 UTC] No.45106018[source]▶
Las Vegas still had deep mafia ties in the 1970s so that’s very possible.