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Last updated: November 11, 2026 · $11.70T tracked

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No. 207United States

Sam McCandlish

Artificial intelligence · San Francisco, California

Net worth

$14.3B

Today

$00.00%

Past month

−$1.2B−7.74%

As of Nov 11, 2026, 1:50 PM EST

Sam McCandlish is cofounder and chief technology officer of Anthropic, which builds large-scale artificial intelligence systems. He cofounded Anthropic in 2021 with six other ex-OpenAI employees. Anthropic, which private investors valued at $965 billion in May 2026, has partnerships with Google's parent company Alphabet and Amazon. McCandlish previously worked for three years as a member of the technical staff at OpenAI. He has a PhD in theoretical physics from Stanford.

Net worth over time

−7.74%−$1.2B over the past month
$16B$14B$13B
Oct 12Nov 11

Principal holdings

1 positions
CompanyShareValue

Private holdings

100.0%$14.3B