The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic.

Anthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks.

In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through how the fastest-growing company in history actually builds software, and pulling out five things you can learn from how they build products & their teams.

⏭️ Episode highlights

(03:00) – One job title, teams of two engineers

(05:30) – The five archetypes with no job titles

(07:45) – Building hundreds of versions before deciding

(09:30) – 15% building, 85% checking

(11:15) – Build a check, not just instructions

(13:00) – Never let the AI mark its own homework

(15:00) – The agent that tried to push to production

🔗 Links & resources

• Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer, "How building software is changing at Anthropic" - https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-anthropic
• Anthropic, "Running an AI-native engineering org" - https://claude.com/blog/running-an-ai-native-engineering-org