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Vendor-issued warrants

Arrangements in which a supplier grants a customer the right to buy its shares, often vesting as the customer's purchases grow.

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Anthropic earns warrants on a third of a percent of Akamai for every extra $1 billion it spends

Akamai gave Anthropic warrants on up to 5% of its stock at $111.33 a share, with 3% vesting only as Anthropic spends up to $9 billion more on its cloud. Existing holders fund that volume rebate, whose value to Anthropic rises with every dollar Akamai's shares trade above the strike.

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Builder
Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 27%
Investor
Investor 56%

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Evidence78
Adoption40
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence70