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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by sumedh on Friday April 17, 2026 @05:40PM (#47810900)
> At that point you are beholden to your shareholders

No not really, you can issue two types of shares, the company founders can control a type of shares which has more voting power while other shareholders can get a different type of shares with less voting power.

Facebook, Google has something similar.

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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by what on Friday April 17, 2026 @06:36PM (#47811317)
No, they still have to act in the interest of shareholders even if they have no voting power.
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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by wsun19 on Friday April 17, 2026 @08:10PM (#47811957)
As a PBC, the intent of the company is not only profit, but it's hard to analyze the counterfactuals of if Anthropic were a pure for-profit or a non-profit
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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by hiroboto on Saturday April 18, 2026 @05:24AM (#47814470)
thats the benefit of a pbc
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Re:Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session by sumedh on Friday April 17, 2026 @11:19PM (#47812867)
What will happen if they don't because the founders control the voting powe
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