Why Anthropic May Let Early Investors Sell Shares, Unlike SpaceX and Cerebras
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Anthropic has confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) and reportedly plans to release its prospectus after Labor Day. The company is considering allowing existing shareholders to sell shares in its IPO. However, it is not clear whether those sellers would be early investors, employees, executives, or a combination of the three. Anthropic is also considering lockup periods longer than the customary 180 days for shares that are not sold in the IPO. Hence, the combination could allow some existing shares to enter the public market initially while delaying when a much larger pool of pre-IPO shares becomes available for sale. An IPO can include new shares that raise cash for the company, or existing shares sold by shareholders. The latter do not add new shares outstanding. Space Exploration Technologies , also known as SpaceX, has already demonstrated why this could matter. Only around 5% of its shares were available for public trading after its June IPO. Another 911.5 million shares became eligible to trade after its first lockup expired in August 2026. This has more than doubled its public float (shares available for public trading). Scheduled lockup releases could make as much as 40% of SpaceX's shares potentially tradable by Dec. 8.
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