2017: Group of friends that met at Burning Man and CFAR. Now: - Anthropic: $183B (2 cofounders + Amanda wrote Claude's personality) - Bluesky: $700M, 40M users (2 cofounders + COO) - Imbue: $1B AI startup (2 cofounders) - General Proximity (invented the only drug that can reactivate mutated apoptosis proteins, which might cure a large percentage of cancers) - Esmerelda's founder - Founder of the Neighborhood, raised grant from Eric Schmidt, representing 0.04% of all funding raised by the house ## Changelog ### [[2025-10-13]] "Burning Man friends' tech empire evolution"