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

<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of San Francisco.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Homeowner and investment banker Storm Duncan has created <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/114-inez-place-mill-valley-ca/about/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">a LinkedIn page</a> for the home, which he said he’d “like to exchange […] for Anthropic equity.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">–<a href="https://sfstandard.com/2026/04/26/mill-valley-compound-sale-price-your-anthropic-shares/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">he San Francisco Standard reports</a> that 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.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Duncan, who described himself as a longtime Bay Area resident who moved to Miami during the pandemic, bought <a href="https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/114-Inez-Pl-Mill-Valley-CA-94941/68553066_zpid/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">the property</a> in 2019 for $4.75 million. It’s currently occupied by “a high-profile VC,” he said, but he declined to identify the VC.</p>