AI NewsTo buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity

To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity

3:44 AM IST · April 27, 2026

Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco. Homeowner and investment banker Storm Duncan has createda LinkedIn pagefor the home, which he said he’d “like to exchange […] for Anthropic equity.” The San Francisco Standard reportsthat Duncan described this as a “diversification play,” as he’s “under-concentrated in AI investments relative to the importance of AI in the future, and over-concentrated in real estate,” while a young Anthropic employee might be “in the exact opposite scenario.” Duncan is asking potential buyers to email him to discuss deal specifics, but he said it would be a private transaction that doesn’t require the buyer to sell their stock outright. On LinkedIn, he also said the homebuyer would “continue to retain 20% of the upside value of the shares exchanged for the duration of the lockup period.” Duncan, who described himself as a longtime Bay Area resident who moved to Miami during the pandemic, boughtthe propertyin 2019 for $4.75 million. It’s currently occupied by “a high profile VC,” he said, but he declined to identify the VC.