Foody: Software talent is power-law distributed, but less extreme than venture investing
Brendan Foody · No Priors Ep. 110 | With Mercor CEO and Co-Founder Brendan Foody · Apr 10, 2025 · at 4:30
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody discusses human talent distributions across different industries with investor Elad Gil on No Priors.
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“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 investors that when in those versus If you're hiring, like, factory workers, right, it's a much more commoditized skill set. There is a lot less of a difference. And I think, like, software engineering is somewhere in between. It's definitely very power law, but I don't think it's as power law as, say, like, the handful of best investors in the world.”
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