POWER OF ATTORNEY


	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby authorizes
David E. Sweet, Robert Yin, Patricia Tom, G. Leonard Baker, Jr., Tench Coxe,
James C. Gaither, Gregory P. Sands, James N. White, or William H. Younger, Jr.
to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4, and 5, and any
Amendments thereto for Corcept Therapeutics, Incorporated ("the Company"), and
cause such form(s) to be filed with the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Act of 1934, relating to
the undersigned's beneficial ownership of securities in the Company.   The
undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact,
or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers
herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-
fact, in serving in such a capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not
assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities
to comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
	This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of, and transactions in, securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
	In witness whereof, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 13th day of April, 2004.




                                        /s/ David L. Anderson