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# WSJ reporter Amrith Ramkumar shares the Tom Brown profile ('convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn't woke')

Amrith Ramkumar (@AmrithRamkumar), X, 2026-10-09.
Source: https://x.com/AmrithRamkumar/status/2108604781149524416

## Why it matters

Author's own post of the WSJ profile (with Keach Hagey), ~56k views; gives the story's framing.

## Summary

Posted Oct 9, 2026 (17:05 UTC): "Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn't woke:
6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company's compute shortage. Profile w/
@keachhagey". Links the WSJ article. Checked via api.fxtwitter.com on Oct 11: ~56k views.

## Archived text

> Meet the Anthropic executive who convinced the White House and Elon Musk that the company isn’t woke:
> 
> 6-foot-6 Tom Brown bought a house in Washington and appealed to Republicans while tackling the company’s compute shortage.
> 
> Profile w/ @keachhagey:
> 
> https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tom-brown-athropic-669005ad?st=pBjigo&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Archived 2026-10-11 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 56,149 views, 225 likes, 17 reposts, 3 replies (at fetch time)
Media: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUNE3zaXIAEUCoE.jpg?name=orig
Media: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUNE3zhW8AA7KCO.jpg?name=orig

## Cited in

- 2026-10-09: [WSJ: Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, a Republican, became its go-between with the Trump administration and Musk](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-09-wsj-tom-brown-anthropic-washington-musk/)

## People in this post

- [Elon Musk](https://postcutoff.com/person/elon-musk/), CEO, Tesla and SpaceX (including SpaceXAI / xAI)
- [Tom Brown](https://postcutoff.com/person/tom-brown/), Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer, Anthropic