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Daniela Amodei

United States 38 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Artificial intelligence
Industry
Technology
Residence
San Francisco, California
Marital Status
Married
Children
2

Biography

Daniela Amodei is cofounder and president of Anthropic, which builds large-scale artificial intelligence systems.

She cofounded Anthropic in 2021 with six other former OpenAI employees, including her brother Dario Amodei, who is CEO.

Anthropic, which private investors valued at $380 billion in February 2026, has partnerships with Google's parent company Alphabet and Amazon.

Amodei worked at OpenAI for about three years as an engineering manager and vice president.

Amodei studied English literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, then joined fintech unicorn Stripe in 2013 as a founding recruiter.