Why it worked
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Summary
The video discusses the significant equity appreciation of Anthropic, a company, from 2023. It highlights how a $100K equity grant could be worth $5.1M today, and contrasts this with a hypothetical $23.54M if no additional shares had been issued, emphasizing the impact of dilution.
Structure
- 1Introduction of Anthropic equity appreciation
- 2Comparison of actual value vs. hypothetical value without dilution
- 3Explanation of dilution's impact
- 4Source attribution of data
Product placement
Anthropic: acts - it is a company whose equity appreciation is being discussed and analyzed. Removing it would change the video's topic. levels.fyi: acts - it is a website that provides compensation data, and its name appears on the graph. Removing it would change the source attribution of the data.
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Anthropic equity appreciation from 2023
$100K of equity granted in May 2023 is worth $5.1M today. It would have been $23.54M if Anthropic had never issued another share. Dilution took the difference, 78% or $18.43M.
78%
Share value grew 6.8x
$20M
$15M
$10M
$5M
$0
2024
Dilution
$18.43M
$5.1M
what it actually did, 51x
$23.54M
if it had breached
this valuation, 2.85x
Source: Levels.fyi for all approved handling notes. This data is for May 2023 and the first half of 2023. The valuation of Anthropic has been updated to reflect the latest available data. The data for the $23.54M figure is based on a hypothetical scenario where no additional shares were issued. The $5.1M figure represents the actual value of the equity grant as of May 2023. The $18.43M figure represents the dilution caused by the issuance of new shares. Levels.fyi is a platform that provides compensation data for tech professionals. The data is based on self-reported information from users and may not be completely accurate. Levels.fyi is not responsible for any decisions made based on the information provided.
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