__________________________________________________________________________________ Natalie
Naugle | Anthropic
If you can get in early on something and become an expert, then you’ ll have something to offer
than 1,000. That level of growth changed both the work and the culture, and she started to think about what might come next. AI’ s rapid development inside Meta grabbed her attention and triggered an earlier piece of career advice she once received:“ If you can get in early on something and become an expert, then you’ ll have something to offer,” she recalls.
Natalie explored opportunities in the AI space and ultimately chose Anthropic. She joined in 2025, drawn by the familiar urgency and sense of purpose.“ The pace feels a lot like early Facebook days,” she says. The docket is smaller, but the rocket-ship feeling remains. She wanted a place to share her expertise, help shape the foundation of a growing legal department, and play a direct role in the company’ s growth.
At Anthropic, Natalie develops strategy and legal frameworks that support innovation and strong governance. She immediately noticed how closely the company’ s legal and mission-driven goals align.“ There’ s no tension between what the company wants to say publicly and what it needs to legally say publicly,” she explains. That openness forms part of Anthropic’ s DNA.“ People are highly transparent, and it’ s actually the right approach,” she observes.
Litigation on repeat
Natalie has lived through this litigation and regulatory arc before. The social media dockets started where everyone expected, with privacy, and then expanded into territory few had mapped: ad discrimination, terrorism, teen mental health, and every kind of off-platform harm. She expects AI to follow a similar path. Copyright is the first wave this time, but privacy, product liability, antitrust, and off-platform harm claims aren’ t far behind. She recalls Sheryl Sandberg asking Meta’ s legal team to“ help the company see around corners.” Back then, Natalie admits,“ I didn’ t even know what the corners looked like.” After a decade spent watching one docket metastasize into the next, that changed.“ I can actually see those corners now.”
That perspective shapes how she approaches litigation and regulatory work today.“ Historically, regulatory engagement was in search of a deeper understanding and cooperative problem solving,” she explains. Now, many regulatory inquiries start with litigation in mind, and the two often move in sync.“ Those things are already merged,” she notes. She expects that overlap to keep growing as the law struggles to keep up with technology.
Building legal blocks
As Anthropic grows, Natalie builds only what the company truly needs. She has seen large organizations waste months on systems that quickly become obsolete.“ You can waste a lot of time developing and implementing a system that will be overtaken by events three Thursdays from now,” she points out. She keeps processes
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