Following the departure of two engineers from the Claude Code team in October, product lead Cat Wu has also left Anthropic ahead of its IPO.
The exodus from pre-IPO frontier labs this year was not on my bingo card.
@carnage4life do these people have unusual stock vesting plans? Or are they really walking away from the equity?
@kevindente That’s what I don’t understand
@carnage4life @kevindente if you’ve already vested enough, quitting would let you sell at IPO without waiting for the employee lockout to end, right? if you are thinking the house of cards might collapse before employees can trade, getting out is better than getting 2 or 3 more vest tranches