US / AI Investment Missed Opportunity 🚨

Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX once deployed $500M into Anthropic at an early ~$2.5B valuation — a move that, on paper, could have turned into a 60x mega-return 📈

Fast forward to now: Anthropic has reportedly raised $30B at a staggering $380B valuation, making it one of the largest private software funding rounds in history 💼

However, due to FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings, that same stake had to be liquidated early near an $18B valuation — bringing in just $1.5B 💸

📉 That translates to an estimated $28B+ in unrealized upside from a single forced exit.

For context: FTX’s total bankruptcy deficit was around $9B — meaning this one AI investment alone could have theoretically covered that gap multiple times over.

In fact, had the stake remained intact, its present-day value would rival FTX’s own peak enterprise valuation.

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