Building Anthropic by Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder & President of Anthropic, on First Block

First Block guest Daniela Amodei, Co-Founder & President of Anthropic, shares how the team built Anthropic and why context switching is so crucial.
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First Block, a Notion series - hosted by Notion's Co-Founder Akshay Kothari - where founders and executives from some of the world’s leading companies tell us what it was like to navigate the many firsts of their startup journey - and what they learned from that experience.
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🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 🚀 *Balancing Roles in a Startup*
- Discussing the broad role overseeing managers, technical research, commercial go-to-market, and foundational company building.
01:09 🌐 *Evolution of Research and Go-to-Market*
- Investing in the research organization initially before establishing a go-to-market team.
- Building a cohesive culture with clear goals, followed by adapting to bring transformative AI systems to market in line with values.
02:16 🔄 *Managing Context Switching in Leadership*
- Exploring the challenges of context switching between research, policy, communication, and engineering.
- Describing the ideal week's schedule and acknowledging the heightened context switching in a leadership role.
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