Brendan Foody is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Mercor, the fastest growing company in history. The company solves talent allocation in the AI economy and they have scaled from $1M to $500M in revenue in just 17 months. With a rumoured new funding round pricing the company at a whopping $10BN, the company has the likes of Benchmark, Felicis, Emergence, and of course, 20VC, all on their cap table.
AGENDA:
04:34 Why My Mother Thought I Was Selling Drugs as a Kid
07:48 In The Time My Peers Graduated, I Created a $10BN Business; Is College Worth it?
10:27 Scale, Surge, Mercor, Turing: How Do Data Providers Differentiate
20:57 Scaling from $1M to $500M: We Quadrupled Since Scale was Acquired
33:43 Is There Too Much Cash in Private Markets?
34:55 Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are Total BS
35:44 Revenue Sustainability in AI Companies
36:48 Should Investors Give a S*** About Margins When Analysing AI Companies
40:46 The Future of AI Model Providers: Who Wins
45:58 You Cannot Create a $10BN Company without 9-9-6 Work Culture
48:56 We Literally Have Too Much Money, We Cannot Spend It…
52:36 Quick Fire Round: OpenAI vs Anthropic, Lessons from Peter Fenton and Jack Dorsey
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By Harry Stebbings
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Brendan Foody is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Mercor, the fastest growing company in history. The company solves talent allocation in the AI economy and they have scaled from $1M to $500M in revenue in just 17 months. With a rumoured new funding round pricing the company at a whopping $10BN, the company has the likes of Benchmark, Felicis, Emergence, and of course, 20VC, all on their cap table.
AGENDA:
04:34 Why My Mother Thought I Was Selling Drugs as a Kid
07:48 In The Time My Peers Graduated, I Created a $10BN Business; Is College Worth it?
10:27 Scale, Surge, Mercor, Turing: How Do Data Providers Differentiate
20:57 Scaling from $1M to $500M: We Quadrupled Since Scale was Acquired
33:43 Is There Too Much Cash in Private Markets?
34:55 Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are Total BS
35:44 Revenue Sustainability in AI Companies
36:48 Should Investors Give a S*** About Margins When Analysing AI Companies
40:46 The Future of AI Model Providers: Who Wins
45:58 You Cannot Create a $10BN Company without 9-9-6 Work Culture
48:56 We Literally Have Too Much Money, We Cannot Spend It…
52:36 Quick Fire Round: OpenAI vs Anthropic, Lessons from Peter Fenton and Jack Dorsey
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