[HN Gopher] Anthropic invests $100M into the Claude Partner Network
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       Anthropic invests $100M into the Claude Partner Network
        
       Author : gmays
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2026-03-14 21:23 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | rishabhaiover wrote:
       | Naive question but do people really value certifications like
       | these?
        
         | KiranRao0 wrote:
         | My naive guess is that business with no tech component hire
         | consultants, and these are part of the sales pitch.
         | 
         | Or governments/large organizations performing box checking
         | exercises
        
         | SpicyLemonZest wrote:
         | They do. Certifications make technical expertise legible to
         | non-technical decisionmakers, and I've encountered people on
         | both sides of that dynamic who affirmatively like it when
         | companies set up programs like this. Obviously you and I would
         | rather have someone who understands Claude make decisions about
         | whether and how to use it, but in a lot of industries that's
         | not realistic.
        
         | MattGaiser wrote:
         | Non-technicals do.
        
       | skybrian wrote:
       | I wonder who the audience is for an announcement about spending a
       | lot of money on something vague?
        
         | alephnerd wrote:
         | > who the audience is...
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         | Businesses that are already in conversations about building
         | partnerships and training with Anthropic.
         | 
         | The real revenue that foundation model companies like
         | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others generate comes
         | from enterprise deals with a smattering of government - not
         | consumer.
         | 
         | Consumer usage is largely a loss leader and training/refining
         | tool, and it's best to view the economics of foundational model
         | providers through the same lens you would a hyperscaler.
         | 
         | A major component to AWS's rise was the ecosystem built around
         | training and teaching how to use the AWS ecosystem thanks to
         | the AWS certification program. Same for K8s via the Linux
         | Foundation.
        
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