Why CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz is looking forward to Anthropic and OpenAI going public

CrowdStrike (CRWD) founder and CEO George Kurtz said he can't wait for Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) and OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) to become public companies, as doing so will force them to act more honorably.

"I think when you're a public company, you have a different standard. And I know that as a public company for many years," Kurtz said at Yahoo Finance Invest. "So I'm actually looking forward to them being public, because I think the level of transparency has to go up. They're going to have to be more diligent in what happens. You just can't have these agents escape and say 'whoops.' And you're going to have to work very closely with the security companies, because you can't have the church and state, you can't use your own technology to prevent against what happens. Because when you have a failure in your own technology, you can't just say 'whoops.' So you're going to need checks and balances."

Kurtz added, "I think the public market is going to force that level of clarity, transparency, to make sure that A) we understand what's happening, and B) they're operating at a higher level of safety than they are today."

Kurtz co-founded CrowdStrike in 2011 alongside Gregg Marston and Dmitri Alperovitch, developing the cloud-native Falcon platform that transformed modern endpoint security. The technology culminated in a blockbuster 2019 IPO.