Mercor

7 statements across 3 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 24, 2025 by Brendan Foody · said 40 times in 17 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Mar 24, 2025 bullish
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Mercor scaled from $1M to $100M in revenue in two years
“And then fast forward two years, we scaled from one to a hundred million in revenue, and so we're only 21 and running this really exciting company that's working with most of the most prominent companies in Silicon Valley.”
Brendan Foody Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 1:14 Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
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Foody: Top AI labs are prioritizing data far beyond frontier model capabilities
“If you look at the most sophisticated labs and what they're really investing in, it's a super high caliber expert data that is like far beyond the model frontier of capabilities.”
Brendan Foody Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 5:59 Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
Mar 24, 2025
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Foody: Mercor hires Harvard Lampoon writers to train AI models on humor
“A lot of our customers at the frontier as you've seen in recent releases are starting to think a lot more about Humor and these exciting things. We have been hiring a bunch of people out of like the Harvard Lampoon and equivalent places that have these comedic…”
Brendan Foody Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 11:24 Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
Mar 24, 2025
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Foody: Mercor raised Series A and Series B without slide decks
“We never actually for our series and our series B, we didn't create a slide deck because we weren't both times like people asked for it and we were like, just no, not, not really willing to create one.”
Brendan Foody Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 15:47 Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
Mar 24, 2025 bullish
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Foody: Human data market will grow dramatically as RL requires ubiquitous evals
“My broader take on the human data market is that It's going to grow dramatically because, so we're getting to the point where RL is so effective that you can create almost any eval and it will be able to solve that eval. And so the barrier to applying AI throu…”
Brendan Foody Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 6:38 Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months
Nov 13, 2025 positive
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Hays: Benchmark's 2020 fund contains multiple 10x-plus winners
“If you look at their twenty-twenty fund, they have Mercore, they have Fireworks. What's the other one? They have a bunch of, like, multi-ten baggers at this point in that fund, so they're feeling pretty good about going to LPs and saying, look, we still got it…”
Jordi Hays Nov 13, 2025 ▶ 16:21 Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
Jul 11, 2026 positive
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Coogan: Top RL Data Contractors Earn Seven Figures Annually
“The top expert contractors at every data company, they're all making seven figures a year. Which is pretty crazy since people thought of data labeling as a 10 dollar an hour task, and now you have people making millions of dollars a year, because they're actua…”
John Coogan Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 24:24 GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
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