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
Principal holdings
1 positions| Company | Industry | Share | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Private holdings | Technology | 100.0% | $14.3B |

