Anthropic Has Scaled to 1,300 Employees and 150 Go-To-Market Staff
Kelly Loftus · Anthropic, Cursor, FaL & Bessemer Venture Partners: The Realities of Scaling AI · Sep 5, 2025 · at 11:21
Kelly Loftus, GTM leader at Anthropic, discusses the company's rapid organizational scaling on a panel with Bessemer Venture Partners.
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“About 1300 at Anthropic, probably a 150 or so on the go-to-market team. So crazy scaling over the last year and a half.”
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