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title: "Analysis: Sam Bankman-Fried's $500M Anthropic investment in 2021 would be worth ~$37B if Anthropic lists at ~$1.5T; he relinquished his stake in 2024 for ~$1.3B (George Hammond/Financial Times)"
type: signal
url: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/analysis-sam-bankman-frieds-500m-anthropic-investment-in-2021-would-be-5a218186
published: 2026-11-14T04:25:01.000Z
byline: "Source: TECHMEME"
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# Analysis: Sam Bankman-Fried's $500M Anthropic investment in 2021 would be worth \~$37B if Anthropic lists at \~$1.5T; he relinquished his stake in 2024 for \~$1.3B (George Hammond/Financial Times)

Source: TECHMEME · Published 2026-11-14 · Canonical: https://frontiernewswire.com/s/analysis-sam-bankman-frieds-500m-anthropic-investment-in-2021-would-be-5a218186

George Hammond / Financial Times : Analysis: Sam Bankman-Fried's $500M Anthropic investment in 2021 would be worth \~$37B if Anthropic lists at \~$1.5T; he relinquished his stake in 2024 for \~$1.3B — Jailed cryptocurrency mogul loses out on windfall from early investment in the AI lab — Sam Bankman-Fried will miss …

## Sources

- [Read the original at TECHMEME](https://www.techmeme.com/261113/p42#a261113p42)

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