Sam McCandlish
$15.5B
as of 06/13/26
About Sam McCandlish
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 $380 billion in February 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.
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United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Artificial intelligenceResidence
San Francisco, CaliforniaBirth date
07/01/90 (age 35)Self-made
self-madeSam McCandlish’s fortune is worth
258K
troy ounces of gold
238K
median U.S. household
155K
median U.S. income
0.31%
U.S. credit card volume
0.062%
GDP of the United States
0.046%
United States debt
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