Turck: The Information reports Claude Code hit $400M ARR in six months
Matt Turck · Anthropic's Surprise Hit: How Claude Code Became an AI Coding Powerhouse · Aug 7, 2025 · at 1:25
Matt Turck, host of The MAD Podcast and General Partner at FirstMark, cites media reporting regarding the fast growth of Anthropic's Claude Code AI tool.
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“There was an article in the information just a couple of days ago that was saying that Cloud Code, which really came out, what, at the end of February of this year, so five, six months ago, is already generating four hundred million in annualized revenue. That was That's at least what was reported. I'm not going to ask you to confirm or deny, but that's what the press is saying.”
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