Daniela Amodei
Daniela Amodei is an American business executive who is the co-founder and president of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude family of large language models. She oversees the company's business operations, go-to-market strategy, policy engagement, and people operations.
Early life and education
Daniela Amodei graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She subsequently earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management.[1]
Career
Early career
Before entering the technology industry, Amodei held positions in finance and operations. She worked at Stripe, the payments technology company, where she served as Vice President of Operations, managing the company's financial operations and scaling its internal systems during a period of rapid growth.[2]
OpenAI
Amodei joined OpenAI as Vice President of Operations, where she was responsible for business operations, finance, and people functions. She worked at OpenAI during the same period as her brother Dario Amodei, who served as Vice President of Research.
Anthropic (2021–present)
In January 2021, Daniela co-founded Anthropic alongside her brother Dario and several other former OpenAI researchers, including Tom Brown, Sam McCandlish, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, and Chris Olah. The company was structured as a public-benefit corporation.
As president, Daniela has been responsible for building the company's organisational infrastructure from the ground up, managing its growth from a small research lab to a company of over 1,000 employees by 2025. She has led Anthropic's commercial strategy, including the launch of the Claude API, enterprise partnerships, and the company's consumer-facing products.
Daniela has also been the company's primary voice on AI policy. She has testified before the United States Senate and engaged with policymakers in the European Union, the United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions on questions of AI regulation and safety standards. She has advocated for regulatory frameworks that encourage responsible development without stifling innovation, and has pushed for mandatory safety evaluations of frontier AI systems before deployment.
Under her leadership, Anthropic raised over $10 billion in funding from investors including Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, making it one of the best-capitalised AI companies in the world by 2025.
Views
Daniela Amodei has spoken publicly about the importance of diverse leadership in AI companies, arguing that the technology industry's homogeneity poses risks for AI development. She has emphasised that AI safety is not solely a technical challenge but also an organisational and cultural one, requiring companies to build internal structures that incentivise caution and long-term thinking over short-term competitive pressure.
She has described her working relationship with her brother Dario as complementary: while Dario focuses on research direction and technical strategy, Daniela manages the business, operational, and policy dimensions of the company. In interviews, she has noted that this division allows each sibling to focus on their strengths while maintaining a shared alignment on the company's mission.