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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Mercor comes up
How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 20:01 Harry Stebbings Like this synthetic data, or real-world data that you just don't have, and that you would buy that from data providers like McCaw, 3 times in the scene
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- ▶ 11:12 Harry Stebbings Um, I think I made a big mistake, because I'm in McCaw, uh, and I think we did it at, like, two or three billion. 3 times in the scene
Anthropic's $30T Assumption & OpenAI Confirms IPO | Why Customer Service & Robotics are Overinflated
- ▶ 13:22 Harry Stebbings In talks to be playing heavily into is McCaw's new funding round. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:43 Jason Lemkin This is the bull case for everything, including Mercore and everything, is we're addicted.
- ▶ 1:24:10 Jason Lemkin And, and magically turn them into the next Mercur or hugging face or any of these things.
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 43:19 Harry Stebbings I'm an investor in McCaw. 4 times in the scene
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 0:11 Harry Stebbings Today we have Oswald Nitsky, CPO at McCaw, in the hot seat. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:30 Harry Stebbings Does open cannibalize McCall's core business? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 unnamed speaker I think it's also self-serving towards Mercore, um, in that we think that every specialized model will need, uh, enterprise, uh, specific eval and training data to show the model how to perform in its setting.
- ▶ 11:38 unnamed speaker We're, um, so as I said, like we're, uh, I've only worked at hyper growth companies and that's what Mercore is and, uh, continues to be, um, more so, you know, more so every day as the growth, uh, just accelerates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:16 unnamed speaker I think that all work is starting to look, like, higher level, so the, the kind of, like, the minutia and the details get sorted out way faster, um, and all the PMs at Mercore have to think way more about, is what I'm focusing my time on…
- ▶ 16:38 unnamed speaker This is, uh, what makes Mercore a hypergrowth company is that we're incredibly tapped into the market and the ecosystem.
- ▶ 21:19 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Brandon about this, but is it a good thing to have the McCall Mafia because you also want to retain talent?
- ▶ 28:59 unnamed speaker So, annotation, platform, we call it studio, marketplace, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:09 unnamed speaker There's never any issues with, with any, um, you know, with working firm or core.
- ▶ 33:53 Harry Stebbings How, how, how have you guys done that so well? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:10 unnamed speaker Well, there's always the, you know, aspect of negotiation and the procurement team trying to get a better deal, um, but we're, uh, we've chosen a great business where our work directly affects the business outcomes of our customers, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:03 unnamed speaker So, uh, it's a totally healthy thing to happen as long as Mercor is winning.
- ▶ 55:48 Harry Stebbings Would you say that you're too late for me? 7 times in the scene
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 38:17 Rory O'Driscoll There's probably more money being spent on training data for the foundation models, you know, the Mercosurge and that, than pretty much any app company outside of Cursor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:46 Harry Stebbings As an investor in McCore, I definitely see it. 4 times in the scene
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:54 Everett Randle You know, the Sierras and Fireworks and Lagoras and Mercores and Langchains and Haygens of the world in that fund, um, and, and many others as well, and so the, the funds look, the funds obviously, um, look, look awesome, but, um, but no,…
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:46 Matan Grinberg And so, you know, from, uh, from Mercor's perspective, you know, it's very much in their interest that models that have access to proprietary data
Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings Joining me in the hot seat today, we have Brandon Foodie, co-founder and CEO of McCaw, one of the fastest growing AI companies, valued at over ten billion dollars today, doing over a billion dollars in revenue.
- ▶ 1:13 Harry Stebbings So I was thinking about how we're going to structure this, and I was like, you know what, there's, there's quite a lot of myths or rumors around McCaw, and given it's our second time, I thought I could kind of break the ice and just go…
- ▶ 1:37 Harry Stebbings What's really happening with McCore? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:19 Brendan Foody Um, throughout Mercure, there's just an enormous amount of context that lives in people's heads that the agents need to have access to, to perform effectively.
- ▶ 25:35 Brendan Foody Well, I would say maybe I'll give it from Mercor's perspective, and then I'll give it from the lab's perspective. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:28 Brendan Foody Um, like we're compounding enormous network effects in the business and a pretty significant data moat as we build out the inventory for our customers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:00 Brendan Foody Like, I'll, I'll give an example in the context of Mercor, which is that we, within this process of turning human time from the talent network into building these super rich environments that mirror
- ▶ 1:03:22 Harry Stebbings I saw your tweets where you, you do the McCall Mafia tweets.
- ▶ 1:05:51 Harry Stebbings Is it harder than ever to run the company? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:38 Brendan Foody And Mercor wouldn't exist if it weren't for any of those individuals, I would say.
Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:35 Harry Stebbings You know, I had, um, Matt Fitzpatrick, who's the CEO of, um, Invisible, which is a kind of billion dollar company that sells data like McCore and all the others.
Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:45 Josh Browder Um, like AI data cleaning, like these companies like Mercor and Micro One, those jobs didn't even exist five years ago, five years ago.
- ▶ 1:15:24 Harry Stebbings We mentioned Micro One and McCaw earlier.
Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 29:29 Harry Stebbings I, I had, I think Matt Fitzpatrick from invisible, which is like a Turing or a McCall competitor.
OpenAI Buys TBPN & Their Management Team Reboot | Mercor Hack & Why Now is the Time for Cyber · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:10 Harry Stebbings I think we will have to, at some point, address McCaw. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:20 unnamed speaker I genuinely think that most B to B companies are going to get hit worse than Merkur. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Kills Sora & Hits $100M ARR on Ads | Oura Going Public & Whoop Raises at $10BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:11 unnamed speaker All of Mercur's data leak.
Gokul Rajaram: How to Analyse for Durability and Defensibility in a World of AI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:16:43 Harry Stebbings We mentioned McCaw earlier who are brilliant.
"Cursor is Dead" is Total BS: Here is Why | Miles Clements · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:04 Miles Clements Yeah, the scale Mercor market?
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:35 Harry Stebbings How do you think about your interactions with the data providers, your McCores, your Turing's, your Invisibles, your da-da-da-da-da-da of the world?
Legora CEO, Max Junestrand: $7M ARR in a Day | Harvey vs Legora: Is a Legal AI Winner Takes All? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:34 Harry Stebbings You know, I had, um, Matt Fitzpatrick, the founder of, or the CEO of invisible, which is kind of like a McCore or a Turing competitor.