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The owner of a three-bedroom in Healdsburg\u00a0is hoping to exchange the property for Anthropic stock.<\/p>\n
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Marin County<\/a> tech entrepreneur Vijay\u00a0Chattha had been watching from the sidelines as artificial intelligence startup Anthropic\u2019s<\/a> value soared. The San Francisco company has been minting fortunes for insiders, while, as a private company, its equity remained off-limits to everyone else.<\/p>\n Then he realized he had a potential bargaining chip: A freshly remodeled three-bedroom estate in Wine Country<\/a> with a bocce court, new pool and coveted vacation rental status.\u00a0<\/p>\n He put his Healdsburg-area home on the market for a listing price of $2.5 million, but with an unusual alternative: He\u2019d accept $2 million worth of Anthropic stock instead. His real estate agent blasted out the pitch in a press release: \u201cHealdsburg Vacation Rental Offered for Anthropic Stock at a $500,000 Discount.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n \u201cThe regular rest of us are training (artificial intelligence), but generally we can\u2019t benefit from the upside yet \u2014 none of these companies are public,\u201d Chattha told the Chronicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n Anthropic is the creator of the wildly popular Claude chatbot and developer tool Claude Code, and the company is in an arms race among major firms like OpenAi, Google and others to dominate the artificial intelligence boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n The owner of a three-bedroom in Healdsburg\u00a0is hoping to exchange the property for Anthropic stock.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Bruington Hargreaves Real Estate<\/p>\n Chattha said he is courting Anthropic because he switched from using OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT to Claude earlier this year and felt the system was far more effective and transformative.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n San Francisco Chronicle Logo<\/p>\n Make us a Preferred Source to get more of our news when you search.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Add Preferred Source<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen was the last time a company changed the way you live and work? Uber? That was ten years ago. The iPhone? We\u2019re talking about one company per decade,\u201d Chattha said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Anthropic\u2019s value had already reached heights few companies achieve when, last September, its valuation hit $183 billion. By May, Anthropic was worth an estimated $900 billion with no end in sight, and its chief executive has bragged that the company would grow by 80 times before the end of the year.<\/p>\n But unlike public companies with equity traded on the stock market, private firms like Anthropic generally limit ownership to founders, employees, venture capital and accredited wealthy investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n