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Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by cyanydeez on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:03AM (#50351502)
ok, but the valid business prop is to be a dependent on anthropic, indistinguishable from just being a second class citizen, since your entire networth can't be extracted from anthropic.

Go nuts with it, but we're at the SciFi dystopia test with: how do mega corporations even form? Well, this is certainly the plausible reality, they just start aggregating random income streams because their product is essentially the only thing that makes the business profitable. Without it, it can't compete.

Hopefully this sounds skeptical, but I don't see how you can have an independent business and be entirely dependent on third party for your operations.

Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by sandworm101 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:10AM (#50351552)
>> I don't see how you can have an independent business and be entirely dependent on third party for your operations

Like a lumber mill that buys logs from a logging company? Who subcontracts to individual fallers? Who buy their chainsaws from a chainsaw company, their fuel from a petrochemical company? No business isn't entirely dependent on third parties. That's what it means to exist in a healthy economy.

A "farm-to-table" megacorp that owns everything from the source of every raw material through to the finished product is a nightmare, an entity that needs to be reigned in and broken up. Capitalism is a competitive game, but a game that can never be allowed to end.

Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by versteegen on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:51AM (#50351964)
But what about the digital economy? It's interesting that the length of the supply chain for digital goods and knowledge work is nothing like physical goods. Google, Microsoft, and Apple are end to end, don't have to depend on any other software company if they don't want to (until LLMs, anyway, except Google).
Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by badpun on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:52AM (#50352747)
What is a "digital economy"? There is only one economy as far as I know. Division of company inputs into software and non-software is arbitrary and has no merit as far as I can see.
Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by davemp on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:56AM (#50352034)
The difference is that the lumber mill isn't giving the logging company all the information required to run a lumber mill and the logging company isn't turning around and selling said information to anyone for $200/mo.
Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by bluefirebrand on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:26AM (#50351708)
> I don't see how you can have an independent business and be entirely dependent on third party for your operations

This isn't new though. A ton of software companies are already completely dependent on AWS or Azure or whatever.

Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by solyin on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:36AM (#50351825)
> I don't see how you can have an independent business and be entirely dependent on third party for your operations.

All businesses are reliant on multiple third parties doing their thing in order for the business to be viable. A lot of companies exist at the whims of Amazon or Walmart.

Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by cyanydeez on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @09:35AM (#50352500)
Not intellectually.
Re:Anthropic IPO filing: $1.7B quarterly payroll, about $107... by intrasight on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @08:36AM (#50351828)
There is no such thing as an "independent company". They are all dependent on the federal government to protect them from the marauding herds.