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Neither of them had shareholders to please.

• smartbit 8mo ago
  They had citizens to please and society to take care of.
• sega_sai 8mo ago
  I don't believe anthropic has shareholders either. It is not a public company
  • sebastiennight 8mo ago
    If you take investments, your investors will most likely own shares of the company (except in specific early-stage scenarios like YC's SAFE). Sometimes major investors will have board seats or voting shares. This happens in normal private companies, not just public ones.
  • cube00 8mo ago
    Still has private investors it can't ignore, until it can buy them out, but it can't do that until it starts turning over a profit. Even then it may not be able to get rid of them if they own enough of a share.