# Ask HN: Why are so many accomplished founders joining Anthropic?

> Source: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902505>
> Published: 2026-07-14 05:04:59+00:00

A striking number of people who had already built successful companies or held unusually high-status roles are choosing to work at Anthropic.

> Recently, Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo and GoCardless and former YC partner

> Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram

> Andrej Karpathy, founding OpenAI member

> Peter Bailis, CTO of Workday

I am mostly curious because they could presumably have raised money for another startup, invested, or retired. Instead, they chose to become employees with deliberately ordinary titles.

If this is not a biased view, what really explains it? Confidence in Anthropic’s leadership, It's research direction, equity ahead of a possible IPO, or somthing else?

I’d especially like to hear from people who have considered joining a frontier lab after founding a company.

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