Ryan Sean Adams

So employees that want to sell or parts of the Anthropic ecosystem that want to sell do sell ahead of the IPO, ahead of actually public listings.

So that sell pressure is gone.

So there's like healthy...

some exchanges of equity and cash that is conducive to Anthropic's goals.

And then there's the parts of the ecosystem that have a bunch of middlemen that are extractive, that kind of just are producing markets that are just elsewhere from Anthropic that they don't see the benefit from and also is a bad look.

You said that there was like bad pricing dynamics.

Anthropic doesn't have the ability to turn a blind eye, legally speaking, so if they are aware of these markets, they have to do something about it?

Exactly.

Okay, okay.

How big is this phenomenon?

Like, how large is this market?

Can we measure this?

Is that the unhealthy dark market that's kind of illicit or is that everything?

Wow, wow, wow, wow.

I wanna talk about two things I've seen on my timeline recently that I think kind of illuminate how crazy this market is.

One was some dude's Hinge profile, a dating app Hinge profile.

And he said, on his little blurbs that you can write, he said, I'm friends with people at Anthropic, zero fee commission for dates.

So like he's using the fact that he has access to Anthropic shares as like a bait for dates on Hinge, which is kind of crazy.

This is a guy in San Francisco.

There's another tweet that kind of echoed around the world.