When Anthropic secured investments from Amazon (up to $4 billion committed) and Google (approximately $2 billion), both announced in 2023, those rounds were closed to institutional partners only. There was no minimum you could meet. No platform that offered access. No secondary market in Asia where you could buy in at any price.
OpenAI followed the same pattern. Its last reported funding round valued the company at over $300 billion (SoftBank-led, March 2025). The growth from startup to that valuation happened entirely in rounds closed to anyone without institutional capital and the right relationships. This is the structure of how private tech wealth is created — and who it has historically been created for.
Sources: Amazon–Anthropic — publicly announced 2023–2024. Google–Anthropic — publicly reported, ~$2B total. OpenAI $300B valuation — SoftBank-led round, March 2025, per public reporting. Figures for illustrative context.