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 đŸ’Œ

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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