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261 days left 2027-06-01
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2027
AI Models Will Clone End-to-End SaaS Apps Within 12 Months
“Those capabilities are going to exist in the models in the next 12 months.”
Brendan Foody Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 36:57 Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
1463 days left 2030-09-15
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Tech companies will employ more software engineers in five years, not fewer
“I think more. And the reason is that engineering is such an elastic role, right? Where if we could build a hundred times more software or say we make engineers 10 times more efficient, We would probably build a hundred times more software, right? And so far as…”
Brendan Foody Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 40:40 Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
1722 days left 2031-06-01
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Enterprises Will Spend More on Compute Than Headcount Within Five Years
“I don't know about 24 months time, but I would bet that in five years the average enterprise spends more on compute than headcount.”
Brendan Foody Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 46:49 Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
1722 days left 2031-06-01
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
OpenAI or Anthropic Will Exceed $10 Trillion Valuation Within Five Years
“I could definitely see one of them being a 10 trillion dollar company maybe even significantly higher. It feels Like the opportunity associated with being the frontier model is so large that it will just like eat up so much of the other demand within the econo…”
Brendan Foody Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 51:10 Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
1722 days left 2031-06-01
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Foody: NVIDIA will lose its monopoly in five years but remain most valuable
“And so I would guess that in five years, it doesn't feel like Nvidia has quite the same monopoly, but that's okay, because even if they only have 30 or 40% market share in the largest market in the world by far, that is the world's most valuable company.”
Brendan Foody Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 52:19 Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
3289 days left 2035-09-15
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2035
AI models will still require human training data in ten years
“I very much believe so, and the reason is that the question comes down to when we'll have super intelligence. Once we have super intelligence and models are better than humans at everything, then, of course, that means that humans won't be able to contribute t…”
Brendan Foody Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 23:20 Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
3549 days left 2036-06-01
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2036
Foody: There will be significantly more jobs in 10 years
“I believe there's certainly going to be many more jobs in 10 years than there are today.”
Brendan Foody Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 11:30 Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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Prediction Held up
Mercor will likely complete a low-dilution financing round soon
“I think that it's likely we'll do a financing soon to answer your question with low dilution, largely because there's a lot of benefits to signaling ourselves as the market leader and RL environments and all of the high complexity data that we produce.”
Brendan Foody Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 30:26 Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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