Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic JULIEN DE ROSA/AFP via Getty Images A gold-rush mentality for Anthropic stock has gripped Silicon Valley in recent weeks . With a very limited supply, holders of Anthropic shares have been flooded with offers. One large VC firm offered to hire a tech founder as a partner in exchange for his Anthropic shares. When one tech founder hinted on X that he might sell his Anthropic shares, it was like throwing bread to seagulls. Within minutes, Jesse Leimgruber was fielding hundreds of offers, from wire-ready cash to offers of a VC partnership, all from investors scrambling to get a slice of one of AI's hottest companies. A gold-rush mentality for Anthropic stock has gripped Silicon Valley in recent weeks , as investors have been wowed by its torrid revenue growth and momentum around its AI-powered coding assistant, Claude Code. There was also a wave of support after Anthropic's dispute with the Pentagon.…