
← In The Loop6 Aug · 13 min
The 5 things you can copy from how the fastest growing company in the world: Anthropic.
<p>Anthropic went from about a billion dollars in revenue to about forty-seven billion in a bit over a year, roughly doubling every six weeks. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of In The Loop, I'm going through how the fastest-growing company in history actually builds software, and pulling out five things you can learn from how they build products & their teams. </p><p><br></p><p>⏭️ Episode highlights</p><p>(03:00) – One job title, teams of two engineers</p><p><br></p><p>(05:30) – The five archetypes with no job titles</p><p><br></p><p>(07:45) – Building hundreds of versions before deciding</p><p><br></p><p>(09:30) – 15% building, 85% checking</p><p><br></p><p>(11:15) – Build a check, not just instructions</p><p><br></p><p>(13:00) – Never let the AI mark its own homework</p><p><br></p><p>(15:00) – The agent that tried to push to production</p><p><br></p><p>🔗 Links & resources</p><ul><li>Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer, "How building software is changing at Anthropic" - <a href="https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-anthropic">https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-anthropic</a></li><li>Anthropic, "Running an AI-native engineering org" - <a href="https://claude.com/blog/running-an-ai-native-engineering-org">https://claude.com/blog/running-an-ai-native-engineering-org</a></li></ul>