{"id":50080,"date":"2026-05-06T21:21:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-jokes-that-his-companys-extreme-revenue-growth-is-too-hard-to-handle\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:21:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:21:17","slug":"anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-jokes-that-his-companys-extreme-revenue-growth-is-too-hard-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-jokes-that-his-companys-extreme-revenue-growth-is-too-hard-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei jokes that his company&#8217;s extreme revenue growth is &#8216;too hard to handle.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69fa8936f9e4752b6d60130e?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.\"\/><figcaption>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Ratcliffe\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\/Reuters<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Dario Amodei spoke at a conference on Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li>The Anthropic CEO is looking to extend the company&#039;s market share among developers.<\/li>\n<li>Anthropic&#039;s developer conference, Code with Claude, featured top brass in San Francisco.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anthropic&#039;s revenue growth is no joke. Just ask Dario Amodei.<\/p>\n<p>During a fireside chat on Wednesday, the Anthropic CEO said his AI company had 80x year-over-year growth in revenue and usage in the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Amodei added, half-joking, that he hopes this doesn&#039;t continue because that level of hyper-growth is &quot;too hard to handle.&quot; It might be better to have a &quot;mere 10x&quot; growth, he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic had planned for anywhere from a &quot;little&quot; revenue growth to 10x, Amodei said, and that gap between expectations and reality is why his company&#039;s computing resources have been stretched thin this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Anthropic CEO made the comments during a conversation with Daniela Amodei, his sister and co-founder, at the company&#039;s Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco. Anthropic&#039;s Claude Code service has been a stunning success, helping the company&#039;s revenue surge dramatically in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Amodei also talked about how new technology doesn&#039;t spread across the economy at an even pace. Software engineers are often the quickest adopters of new tools, and that&#039;s why there&#039;s so much focus on coding so far. But this is a foreshadowing of how things are going to work across the economy, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Amodei has built a reputation as AI&#039;s foremost prognosticator and fear-monger as he speaks and writes regularly about the potential disruption and risk posed by this technology. He estimated in March 2025 that &quot;essentially all&quot; code might be written by AI within a year, and kicked off fears of a so-called &quot;white-collar bloodbath&quot; in a May 2025 interview with Axios.<\/p>\n<p>His company, formed by deserters from OpenAI, straggled behind the ChatGPT creator during the first years of the generative AI boom. But in late 2025, Anthropic&#039;s Claude Code exploded in popularity among developers and supercharged the startup&#039;s revenue growth. Now, the companies are in an all-out race to win over developers and corporate AI customers, the better to fund their massive training and inference bills.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Anthropic announced that it had secured 300 megawatts of new computing power at SpaceX&#039;s Colossus One data center. The deal lands Elon Musk&#039;s company a growing customer, and Anthropic touted immediate benefits: Product chief Ami Vora said the new batch of chips would let developers run Claude Code for longer each day.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic will continue pitching its models for coding at another in-person event with developers in San Francisco on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>scouncil@insider.com<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> or Signal, Telegram, or WhatsApp at 415-757-8198. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; here&#039;s our guide to sharing information securely.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Chris Ratcliffe\/Bloomberg via Getty Images\/Reuters Dario Amodei spoke at a conference on Wednesday. The Anthropic CEO is looking to extend the company&#039;s market share among developers. Anthropic&#039;s developer conference, Code with Claude, featured top brass in San Francisco. Anthropic&#039;s revenue growth is no joke. Just ask Dario Amodei. During a fireside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}