Adarsh Hiremath
Co-Founder & CTO, Mercor. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Adarsh Hiremath co-founded Mercor in 2023, developing an AI platform that recruits and matches expert contractors to supply training data to AI labs. A Thiel Fellow who dropped out of Harvard University, he serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer.
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4said about them ↓ Everything Adarsh Hiremath said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Mercor Builds Predictive Candidate Flywheel from End-to-End Job Performance Data
“The second network effect is or like data flywheel is around this job prediction piece where we're able to see who is performing well on jobs and the specific reasons why they're performing well on jobs and use that, that end to end Data on people's outcomes t…”
Hiremath: The greatest technology companies of this generation are usage-based
“And I think a lot of the greatest products or companies of our generation have been usage based, right? I think Stripe is a great example of this.”
Mercor initially launched exclusively as a chatbot interface
“One of the initial iterations of the Mercore product was just built around a chat interface. Like there was pretty much no other way to hire people unless you use the Mercore chat bot, because we were so bullish on, on chat.”
Hiremath: Mercor Did Not Intend to Do Any Stated Fundraising Rounds
“An interesting dynamic about of all of our, you know, fundraising rounds is just that, like, we didn't intend on, on doing the fundraising at the time, and it sort of just came to us.”
Hiremath: Mercor reached eight-figure revenue before raising from Felicis
“It was doing, you know, eight figures in, in revenue, right?”
Hiremath: Mercor does not plan to immediately deploy $100M raise
“Our goal isn't to deploy a hundred million dollars tomorrow.”
Adarsh Hiremath defines AGI as automating economically valuable work and research
“When we achieve AGI or sort of like think about AGI, it will certainly involve You know, doing more economically valuable work, right? So when more and more and more of economically valuable work has been automated to some extent, you know, research has been a…”
Hiremath: Mercor founders dropped out before raising seed or getting Thiel Fellowships
“No seed round, a little bit of revenue, no series A, no Teal Fellowship, nothing. We were just three friends working in a small office in Palo Alto with our amazing team in India.”
Hiremath: Top AI labs use Mercor to hire talent for model post-training
“It looks exactly the same as placing someone to work at any company, right? So just like Mercore might work with startups making their first hires or companies hiring in a more traditional full-time capacity. It's the exact same thing for a lot of the large AI…”
Hiremath: Mercor's AI Interviewer Can Launch in Under 10 Seconds
“You can literally spin up this interview in under 10 seconds.”
Hiremath: The US is the top country of origin for Mercor candidates
“Actually the number one place that, you know, workers on the Mercore platform who, you know, have jobs through, through us are from is actually the United States.”
Hiremath: Mercor is moving toward fully automating its internal hiring process
“Maybe running our entire, you know, internal hiring process for Mercore in a completely automated way, meaning Brandon, Surya, and I don't even talk to someone when they come into the office, and then we walk in the conference room to meet them the first time,…”
Hiremath: Mercor's board consists only of its co-founders and Benchmark
“It's, you know, Brendan, Suri, and I, and Benchmark on the board.”
Hiremath: Mercor originally launched as a software development shop
“Brendon Suria and I started working together without any business ambition. Necessarily. We just started a dev shop together.”
Hiremath: Mercor pivoted to recruitment after hiring Indian developers
“And what we ended up doing is recruiting these really, really exceptional folks from India to help us out with our dev shop. And then very, very quickly we realized, you know, the software was one thing, but we had found some really, really exceptional people …”
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