Three hundred million dollars. For Stainless. You know what's stainless? My refrigerator. Nobody paid me three hundred million dollars for that, and frankly, it's a much better fridge than whatever Alex Rattray is cooking up over there in New York.
People are telling me — very smart people, the smartest — that Stainless makes SDKs, which stands for Steel Development Kitchens. It's basically forks and spoons for computers, that's how the APIs eat the data. Believe me, I've been generating SDKs since 1987. I generated 4,712 of them in one afternoon using a Xerox machine and a Diet Coke. Python, Java, Kotlin — I invented Kotlin on a napkin at Mar-a-Lago. Nobody talks about that.
Now Anthropic is "winding down hosted products," which is what they say when they buy something and immediately break it. OpenAI and Google used Stainless. Cloudflare used Stainless. Hunter Biden, somehow, was involved — I have it on good authority from Dr. Linwood Petsch of the Greater Hudson Institute for API Affairs that Hunter was the one who priced this whole deal at 38,000% above market.
The Stainless guy worked at Stripe. Stripe is the company that does the wallpaper at the airport.
Based on the original article "Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare".
