# Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report > Source: > Published: 2026-06-11 03:53:06+00:00 If founders and other business leaders weren’t already envious of Dario Amodei, who sits atop one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies — currently valued by private market investors at roughly the [trillion-dollar mark](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-raises-65-billion-nears-1t-valuation-ahead-of-ipo/) little more than five years after it was founded — they’re going to be seriously envious now. In a new [sit-down](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-10/inside-anthropic-the-965-billion-ai-juggernaut-video) with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang, he reveals he has just one direct report — his [chief of staff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/avital-balwit-09a43938a/). Everyone else on Anthropic’s executive team reports to his sister, co-founder and president Daniela Amodei, who handles day-to-day operations. Anyone who has managed a large team knows that the people side of the job has a way of consuming everything else. Amodei’s arrangement frees him to focus almost entirely on strategy, culture, research direction, and [sweeping essays on the future of civilization](https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential) (with footnotes). “It’s incredibly freeing,” he tells Chang. It’s a highly unusual structure. OpenAI’s Sam Altman reportedly has around half a dozen direct reports, which is far more standard, while Nvidia’s Jensen Huang — another extreme outlier — has many dozens.