How Claude Is Creating a New Generation of Millionaires -- Without Writing a Line of Code

Vulcan, a company building software that runs inside government agencies, looks like the output of a hundred-engineer team -- but most of its people can't write a single line of code. They built the whole company by describing what they wanted inside Claude.

This isn't an isolated case. A week spent with a room full of seven-figure founders showed the same pattern repeating, and the creator himself runs his own businesses using Claude every day.

Anthropic, the company behind Claude, might look like just another ChatGPT competitor at first glance. But two weeks ago it raised $65 billion in a single round, pushing its valuation to $965 billion -- just shy of $1 trillion -- and surpassing OpenAI for the first time ever. That's not just investor hype: the revenue backs it up.

Anthropic's run rate has just hit $47 billion, up from $1 billion at the end of 2024 -- roughly 47x growth in about a year and a half.

People using Claude for their day-to-day work are simply getting more done, and they're the ones being handed the bigger projects and opportunities -- while those still doing everything manually can't keep pace. It brings to mind the cliche: AI won't take your job, but someone who knows how to use AI will.

He compares this to the early internet, when people who picked up basic HTML or learned to run Facebook ads captured attention cheaply while competitors were still buying newspaper ads -- an edge that compounded for roughly a decade. The people winning with Claude today aren't smarter, he argues, just earlier. Getting started takes four steps, the first being a paid Claude plan (starting at $20/month) for access to Claude Code.