Rank #555
Sam McCandlish
Net worth $7.0B
Artificial intelligence · United States
- Born
- Jul 01, 1990
- Age
- 35
- Source
- Artificial intelligence
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- 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.