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it's Amy Wu who led the all the VC investments - Anthropic, etc
This overstates Amy Wu’s role. Anthropic’s own Series B announcement says its April 29, 2022 round was led by Sam Bankman-Fried, not Amy Wu.
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Anthropic directly identified Sam Bankman-Fried as the lead for its April 29, 2022 Series B round. Its announcement states: "The Series B round was led by Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX."
FTX's own January 14, 2022 launch announcement for FTX Ventures says Amy Wu joined FTX to lead FTX Ventures, gaming, M&A, and commercial initiatives. That supports the narrower claim that she helped lead the venture arm generally, but it does not support the stronger claim here that she led all the VC investments, including Anthropic.
Because the post specifically uses Anthropic as an example, and Anthropic itself says that round was led by Sam Bankman-Fried, the claim is inaccurate as written.
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- Anthropic Raises Series B to build steerable, interpretable, robust AI systems
Anthropic's Apr. 29, 2022 announcement says: "The Series B round was led by Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX."
- FTX launches $2 billion Ventures fund, hires former Lightspeed Partner Amy Wu
FTX's Jan. 14, 2022 announcement says Amy Wu joined FTX "to lead Ventures, gaming, M&A and commercial initiatives," describing her role at FTX Ventures generally, not as the lead on Anthropic's round.