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Lisa Drakeman and the education of a beginner
A Princeton historian became Genmab’s founding CEO, then went back to studying wine. The thread through Lisa Drakeman’s career is a willingness to learn before she knows where it will lead.
AM makes the past easier to search. The hard part is knowing what to ask.
From Shakespeare’s First Folios to gospel recordings, AM turns scattered archives into research collections. Its other business gives libraries the machinery to publish their own.
Daniela Amodei
Daniela Amodei is the President and Co-Founder of Anthropic, one of the world's most influential AI safety companies. A UC Santa Cruz English Literature graduate and former classical flute scholarship recipient, she pivoted from Capitol Hill communications to Stripe to OpenAI before co-founding Anthropic in 2021 alongside her brother Dario Amodei and six other OpenAI colleagues. At Anthropic, she runs all commercial, operational, and cultural operations while Dario leads research and technical strategy — a division of labor that has scaled the company to a $380 billion valuation, over 300,000 enterprise customers, and projected $10 billion in 2025 revenue. Named #1 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list for 2025 and to TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2026, Daniela champions a vision of AI safety as competitive advantage, humanities education as future-proof, and 'low politics, high integrity' as the only culture worth building.