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I was in the shower thinking: how does an ambitious product and business guy like me land a gig at Anthropic? The answer was obvious:
Do something so cool that cannot be ignored. And what's better than doing something? Well...having Claude do it.
Here's a thought experiment: in a room of 10,000 people saying“I want to work at Anthropic,” how many do you think actually mean it? I know I'll push every limit to get my foot in the door. I'm confident enough to say, “I can actually get this job” and take aggressive action.
The reality is that only ~200 of those 10,000 genuinely believe they can do it. When you look at it that way, my odds aren't terrible. 50% of people will not even apply, and most others won't do more than a hail mary job application sent via LinkedIn. Like Logan Roy says in HBO Series, Succession: "You are not serious people".
Naturally, my next step was to create that “can't be ignored” project. I decided to build a web app that functions as both a resume and a viral growth engine to get me this job. If you're reading this, I'm happy to say the plan is working hehe.
I made a non-negotiable rule for this project: it had to be built entirely within Claude Code and Cowork. Any good product & business mind should be brimming with ideas on how to win. That said, if you want to skip to my product/strategy recommendations for Anthropic, you can skip to them here.
If you like my recommendations, go hit that “Endorse Julian” button and get me an interview for the Product Manager, Claude Code Growth role.
What I've Built
Kimura — BJJ Notes & Sessions
I solo-founded Kimura: “Strava for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.” It's an iOS app for BJJ practitioners to track techniques, connect moves into flows, and keep themselves accountable. What started as a personal project grew into a small business with 30,000+ users and today generates $X,XXX/month in net income.
Great app! Oss!!
“Really clean design! I'm testing it and the functionality is clear and really easy to use, you don't get lost. Is really useful to track your progress and have a mental schema of what do you know and how do you want to play your game in your next bjj session. Will continue using it, I really like it! Great job 🫶🏻🤙🏻”
Best BJJ app!!
“Great app for remembering techniques I learn in class. Thanks!!”
Definitely helping me LVL up
“I appreciate the ability to share vids from YouTube to the corresponding move I'm journaling in so thank you to the creators of this app, I really appreciate it!”
Great BJJ app
“Love it to retain knowledge”
Best BJJ tracking app out there
“Omg I love this. I've been using it to track all of the really important techniques I've learned in class. Once I realized that I could save instructionals from YouTube it totally changed the game!”
Super App to jiujitsu
“Very useful to concatenate your game. Oss!”
Literally The Best App Ever
“Spend at least 2 hours a day on here. Training partners are getting tired of me saying “let me try something I saw on Kimura” before every class now.”
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Why Anthropic
I’m sure you’ve heard tech bros smugly warn, “don’t be a Luddite,” as if resistance to new technology like AI is just ignorance or fear. The real history of the 1812 Luddite movement in England shows a predictable response to unmanaged disruption. In every technological revolution, the people who shape and deploy new technologies end up writing the rules, crafting the narratives, and designing reward structures for the next era.
If you read enough history (see “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech, a book by Brian Merchant), this (expected) resistance is rarely about hating or fearing technology. The historical Luddite “machine breakers” mostly wanted fair wages, humane conditions, and a voice in how the new system worked. Smashing machines become leverage for the Luddites when law and custom failed.
The people who resist usually get remembered as a cautionary footnote, even when their fears were valid.
Let me be selfishly clear: I want to be with the people who create the machines at Anthropic, but I don’t want to be blind to the people they displace. Because there will be displacement in the near-term.
Being on the side of the Builders comes with a duty.
The people who successfully deploy new machines are also the ones best positioned to bake-in protections: better job transitions, new forms of skilled work, and institutions that don’t treat humans as disposable inputs.
That’s why I wish to join Anthropic. The winners that stay on top are those who help design guardrails so the backlash never explodes into pure machine-breaking, at least not for the companies thoughtful enough to see it coming...
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