according to a Bloomberg report this month<\/a>. Duncan said his own analysis of Anthropic\u2019s financials yields a similar valuation.\u00a0<\/p>\nDuncan\u2019s 4,400-square-foot, four-bedroom mansion in the hills of Mill Valley just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Provided by Storm Duncan<\/p>\n
Acquiring shares directly from another individual versus buying them through so-called secondary markets offers more transparency, Duncan said, adding that determining the legitimacy of still-private startup shares can be difficult and risky.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There are also tax advantages to doing a swap for his house, he added.<\/p>\n
A swap would have to occur at a current valuation for Anthropic and he would allow any takers to retain 20% of the upside value of the exchanged shares before they could be legally transferred to him, Duncan said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 56-year-old financier\u2019s listing \u2013 which sparked chatter in tech circles after he posted it on Linkedin this week Provided by Storm Duncan<\/p>\n
San Francisco-based Anthropic has lately fielded offers from venture capitalists that would value it at $800 billion or more. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Duncan has invested in numerous AI startups including Gecko Robotics which has been valued at $1.25 billion; he has also backed enterprise networking company Upscale AI, which inked a $200 million Series A financing in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mill Valley estate at 114 Inez Place has long served as a party destination. In the years before Covid, Duncan said he threw shindigs for as many as 700 guests, with models, real-estate bigwigs and influential technologists in attendance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSuffice to say that if the house blew up during a party, it would have been a problem for the tech world,\u201d Duncan said. \u201cMy goal with those parties was to get people together from different walks of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duncan said he now splits his time between homes in Miami and Wyoming and that a \u201cvery famous\u201d venture capitalist currently lives at his Mill Valley estate, declining to name the renter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Silicon Valley dealmaker is looking to swap his 14-acre estate for shares of the AI giant Anthropic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,25,309,970,10739,3050,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-13903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anthropic","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-luxury-real-estate","13":"tag-real-estate","14":"tag-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}