AI Startup CEO Pay Revealed in IPO Filing: $18 Million

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTop story. Seeking Alpha reports an AI startup's IPO filing shows its CEO earned eighteen million dollars last year.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe New York Post names him as Dario Amodei.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe filing is a step toward public markets. Pay disclosures like this are what investors read before deciding whether the founder is worth it.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorEighteen million, Hank! That's not a salary, that's a love letter from the future! The Nasdaq is up point eight four and it's blushing!

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a company that hasn't listed yet, Vera, and we're already counting the CEO's lunch money. That's how every bubble starts.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorWith a tidy little spreadsheet.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDale, you drink tea out of a thermos shaped like a doom clock. You cannot lecture anyone about spreadsheets.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a bunker thermos and it's practical. Eighteen million is an enormous number to explain to shareholders when the product still hallucinates.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFor context, eighteen million dollars is roughly nine million cans of chickpeas. I have done the math. I have not done anything with it.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, nine million cans is just a pantry with a dream. Put it on the IPO roadshow.