Anthropic's headcount nearly tripled in a year while revenue grew 13 times, lifting revenue per employee over the past year to more than $6.6 million from $1.4 million a year earlier, according to the IPO prospectus filed Monday. By Yahoo Finance calculations, that trails only Nvidia (about $7.2 million), ahead of Meta ($3.6 million), Apple ($3.1 million) and Amazon ($0.5 million), though the measure reflects sales rather than profit. The prospectus credits Claude for much of this leanness, saying more than 90% of code added to Anthropic's codebase in September was written by Claude, as revenue rose from $41 million in 2023 to $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026. At the reportedly discussed $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion IPO valuation, Anthropic would be worth $283 million to $377 million per employee, two to three times Nvidia's $121 million.
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