Anthropic has divided its controlling shares among seven founders, a governance structure that has drawn criticism from Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and developer Austin Griffith. The decision to distribute control across multiple individuals has sparked debate about corporate efficiency in the AI sector. Griffith warned that having seven people in charge would slow down the company's ability to compete, citing lessons learned from decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). "It comes down to their ability to compete and having seven people in charge is going to slow that down," Griffith stated, drawing parallels between Anthropic's multi-founder control model and the governance challenges faced by DAOs.