Mercor

“One interesting one we've seen in the past is that people who are based internationally but study abroad in a Western country tend to, like, work much more collaboratively or communicate better with people”

“I think that it'll definitely become more power law over time, which means that, like, the best people are going to, of course, make an incredible amount of money.”

“The reason I'm so optimistic about it taking off is that it's, like, profoundly data efficient, right? And it finally makes sense to customize models at the application layer.”

“I think that LinkedIn centralizes And aggregates the very first layer of the application process of, like, what are the things that this person has done and, like, who are they connected to? The challenge historically has been that the rest of the process to f…”

“Imagine if you could have Peter Thiel as a heuristic interview everyone in the world when they're 18, right? And, like, and maybe he could go through and, like, meticulously spend time determining, like, you know, who is actually going to be good at what job. …”

“Everything that you can measure with text, the models are really good at. Like if you can ask questions in an interview and read through the transcript, the models are superhuman at that across many more domains than one would think.”

“We're already seeing on most of our evals that models are better than human hiring managers at assessing talent, and it's still like the very early innings.”

“It's very industry by industry, right? Like for you and in investing, right? It's like the most power law thing imaginable. And where it's just like the top handful of companies each decade are the ones that matter such a disproportionate amount. And it's the …”

“When you're able to solve this matching problem at the cost of software, It makes way for a global unified labor market that every candidate applies to and every company hires from. And I believe that that's not only the largest economic opportunity in the wor…”

“It's used by all of the top AI labs to hire thousands of people that train the next generation of models.”