I gather that they changed the donation matching program for future employees, but the 3:1 match still holds for prior employees, including all early employees (this change happened after I left, when Anthropic was maybe 50 people?)
I’m sad about the change, but I think that any goodwill due to believing the founders have pledged much of their equity to charity is reasonable and not invalidated by the change
If it still holds for early employees that would be a good clarification and totally agree with you that if that is the case, I don’t think any goodwill was invalidated! That’s part why I was asking for clarification. I (personally) wouldn’t be surprised if this had also been changed for early employees (and am currently close to 50⁄50 on that being the case).
The old 3:1 match still applies to employees who joined prior to May/June-ish 2024. For new joiners it’s indeed now 1:1 as suggested by the Dario interview you linked.
I would be very surprised if it had changed for early employees. I considered the donation matching part of my compensation package (it 2.5x the amount of equity, since it was a 3:1 match on half my equity), and it would be pretty norm violating to retroactively reduce compensation
If it had happened I would have expected that it would have been negotiated somehow with early employees (in a way that they agreed to, but not necessarily any external observers).
But seems like it is confirmed that that early matching is indeed still active!
I gather that they changed the donation matching program for future employees, but the 3:1 match still holds for prior employees, including all early employees (this change happened after I left, when Anthropic was maybe 50 people?)
I’m sad about the change, but I think that any goodwill due to believing the founders have pledged much of their equity to charity is reasonable and not invalidated by the change
If it still holds for early employees that would be a good clarification and totally agree with you that if that is the case, I don’t think any goodwill was invalidated! That’s part why I was asking for clarification. I (personally) wouldn’t be surprised if this had also been changed for early employees (and am currently close to 50⁄50 on that being the case).
The old 3:1 match still applies to employees who joined prior to May/June-ish 2024. For new joiners it’s indeed now 1:1 as suggested by the Dario interview you linked.
That’s great to hear, thank you for clarifying!
I would be very surprised if it had changed for early employees. I considered the donation matching part of my compensation package (it 2.5x the amount of equity, since it was a 3:1 match on half my equity), and it would be pretty norm violating to retroactively reduce compensation
If it had happened I would have expected that it would have been negotiated somehow with early employees (in a way that they agreed to, but not necessarily any external observers).
But seems like it is confirmed that that early matching is indeed still active!
I can also confirm (I have a 3:1 match).