Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on designing AGI-pilled products, model economics, and 19th-century vitalism

Cheeky Pint · Aug 6, 2025 · 1h 2m · transcript

Dario Amodei joins John Collison to talk about Anthropic's growth to ~$5 billion in ARR, how AI models show capitalistic impulses, predictions for an agentic future, the economics of model businesses, and the 19th-century concept of vitalism.

Full episode transcript on Substack: https://cheekypint.substack.com/p/a-cheeky-pint-with-anthropic-ceo

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(00:50) Working with your sibling

(01:43) Building Anthropic with 7 cofounders

(02:52) ~$5 billion in ARR and vertical applications of products

(07:18) Developing a platform-first company

(10:08) Working with the DoD

(11:11)…