Cami Clark influences Anthropic’s direction as key adviser to CEO Dario Amodei

In Silicon Valley, the most consequential people in any company’s story are often the ones who never appear on an org chart. Cami Clark, wife of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, is one of them. Clark holds no official title, draws no salary, and owns no equity in Anthropic. Yet by most accounts, she has been a steady presence behind some of the company’s most important early decisions and relationships, operating as an informal strategic adviser to one of the most closely watched AI labs in the world. The network behind the company The clearest illustration of Clark’s influence sits in Anthropic’s earliest funding history. She helped facilitate a connection with Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, that contributed to Schmidt’s participation in Anthropic’s Series A round, which closed in May 2021 at $124 million. Clark and Amodei first met in 2014, nearly a decade before Anthropic became a household name in AI circles. They married in Italy in 2022. Her background spans a range of entrepreneurial efforts. She served as head of revenue at Leap Motion, the gesture-control hardware company, from 2016 to 2017. She later pursued ventures including a women-focused adult film business and a wo...