--- title: Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its... description: Anthropic's IPO filing excludes Ben Mann from the seven-person founder group that will control the company's voting power after listing. A footnote on page 248... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-s-ipo-filing-leaves-ben-mann-out-of-its-founder-voting-group-bxaw9yrjt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group | daily.dev og:description: Anthropic's IPO filing excludes Ben Mann from the seven-person founder group that will control the company's voting power after listing. A footnote on page 248... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/anthropic-s-ipo-filing-leaves-ben-mann-out-of-its-founder-voting-group-bxaw9yrjt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/bXAW9YRjt.png og:image:alt: Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Anthropic’s IPO filing leaves Ben Mann out of its founder voting group **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Anthropic's IPO filing excludes Ben Mann from the seven-person founder group that will control the company's voting power after listing. A footnote on page 248 of the S-1 prospectus, filed October 26, calls Mann 'often referred to as a co-founder' and says he is not a member of the Founder LLC, which will hold the single Class F share, which carries 50.1% of voting power. The seven listed founders are Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Christopher Olah. An Anthropic spokesperson said it's 'still fair' to call Mann a cofounder, and there's been no change to his role. The Founder LLC agreement also lets each founder propose a confidential ranked list of up to 10 successors, which takes effect only once five of the other six founders approve it. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Who controls Anthropic's voting shares according to its IPO filing? Seven founders hold Anthropic's Class F common stock through a Founder LLC, which carries 50.1% of shareholder voting power. The founders are Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Christopher Olah. Ben Mann, who co-leads Anthropic Labs and has been with the company since its January 2021 founding, is notably excluded from this group despite being commonly called a cofounder. _Investors weighing AI company governance can follow IPO filing details like this on daily.dev._ ### Can Anthropic's founders pick who inherits their voting power? Yes, under the Founder LLC agreement filed with the S-1, each of the seven founders may propose a ranked list of up to 10 successors to inherit their vote. A list only takes effect once five of the other six founders approve it, and the list itself along with the order of names is kept strictly confidential. A board governance committee can request reconsideration, but that request is advisory only. _Anyone tracking how AI labs structure control after an IPO can follow filings like Anthropic's on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Anthropic named eight firms selling its shares illegally. 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