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SBF invested $500M into her startup before going to federal prison 🙄 Now Daniela Amodei is America's 2nd richest self-made woman with a $15B net worth. Here's how an English lit major ended up holding the keys to AI 👇🏻 After studying English at UC Santa Cruz, Daniela started on Capitol Hill. Pivoted to tech in 2013 as a founding recruiter at Stripe. Then landed at OpenAI — climbing from engineering manager to VP of People to VP of Safety and Policy. While everyone raced to build AI *fastest*, Daniela asked the question nobody else wanted to answer: *Who's making sure we build it safely?* So in December 2020, she walked out of OpenAI with her brother Dario and five colleagues to build something different. Not just more powerful. Safer. ✅ Incorporated Anthropic as a public benefit corporation ✅ Built Claude on a "constitution" — no stereotyping, no misinformation ✅ Raised a $124M Series A ✅ Got a $500M check from SBF at ~8% of the company SBF was forced to sell his stake for ~$1.3B. That stake is worth an estimated $77B today 💖 Meanwhile, the English major he bet on just filed to take Anthropic public at a near trillion dollar valuation. In the race to build artificial intelligence — the people who understand *human* intelligence are the ones who end up holding the power. Follow for more stories like this 👇🏻 #femalefounder #womenintech #angelinvesting #venturecapital #brydgeclub #anthropic #danielaamodei #wealthbuilding #aiinvesting #femalefounder #womenwhoinvest #startupstory