Google took 19 years to hit $100B. Anthropic will do it in a third of the time.
@mmurph on investing in both before they had revenue:
"Earlier in my career, I sat in all the board meetings from the time we invested in Google at Kleiner to the time it IPO'd.
Still today, people probably think of it as the fastest growing business ever. I think it was zero to a billion in five years. Zero to $10 billion in eight years. And then $10 billion to $100 billion in 11 years after that.
So you're talking 19 years to get to $100 billion.
It's tremendous. But then you have a company like Anthropic that comes along and can do that in a third or less of the time.
That puts in perspective how quickly this company is growing, and what a different phenomenon we're in with AI."