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why aren't all 4 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 4 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable

Assertion Open
Meta Offered an AI Candidate $20 Million Per Year in Cash
“There was someone I was hiring the other day, and he had an offer for twenty million dollars in cash per year from TBD, and like that's the kind of stuff we run into on a regular basis.”
Brendan Foody Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 1:03:48 Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Open
Stebbings: Mercor hit $500M revenue run rate in 17 months
“Now this company has gone to five hundred million in revenue, faster than anyone else, I believe, in history. I think it was 17 months.”
Harry Stebbings Oct 30, 2025 ▶ 26:43 OpenAI Restructuring: Who Wins and Who Loses & Mercor Raises $350M at a $10BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Foody: Millions of people will soon be hired to train AI on workplace tasks
“And so there's this enormous mobilization of hundreds of thousands and soon millions of people to build out the full distribution of everything that you could pass into Google Workspace and everything that you could want out on the other side in every job cate…”
Brendan Foody Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 26:55 Mercor CEO: Why Application Layer Companies Have No Moat & The Cost of Hiring AI Researchers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Open
Scale AI used Mercor's platform to hire thousands of workers
“Scale AI came to us and they used our platform to hire thousands of people.”
Brendan Foody Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 8:03 Mercor CEO & Co-Founder, Brendan Foody: How They Grew from $1M to $500M in 17 Months · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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