In 2025, Dario Amodei refused to match Meta's $100 million offers and still kept 80% of recent hires, the best retention in AI. Meta kept 64%. The discount was the filter. Anyone who chose Anthropic was leaving money on the table, which proved they believed. Then the strategy worked too well. Anthropic's valuation jumped from $61 billion to over $300 billion in roughly a year, revenue is reportedly running toward $47 billion annualized, and an IPO near $1 trillion is in play. Anthropic equity…