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Saquon Barkley owns a piece of Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, and next week it's set to go public at a valuation of up to about $1 trillion. Anthropic said Tuesday it plans to sell shares at $70 to $78 each, with trading set to start Nov. 19. At the top of that range, it would be one of the most valuable companies ever to go public. When Barkley's stake was reported in September 2025, Anthropic was valued at $183 billion. How much he invested and when haven't been made public, but he usually puts $250,000 to $500,000 into a company. He started investing after he tore his ACL in 2020 and realized his $31 million rookie contract might be the only big money he'd make. His business manager had him read "Zero to One," a book by tech investor Peter Thiel, and he began putting money into private companies. His portfolio includes the defense company Anduril, Elon Musk's Neuralink and the finance startup Ramp. He also owned part of Polymarket until the NFL made him sell it this fall, since players can't own prediction-market companies.