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Zuck’s AI Vision, Celebs Are Dating Private Equity Guys, AI Agent Hacks Gym | Diet TBPN Aug 11, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:09 John Coogan Is on the order of a scale, Mercore, Handshake, etc. 2 times in the scene

GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN Jul 11, 2026 · 1 mention

WWDC Kicks Off, Jobs Up, Tech Down, VC Horror Stories Go Viral | Diet TBPN Jun 9, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:48 unnamed speaker Mercore CEO Brendan Foody detailed what he calls the Sequoia scam, which is something interesting we should actually dig into. 2 times in the scene

AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN Apr 1, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 10:02 John Coogan I mean, practical, I mean, there is going to be some sort of, like, power law response here, where of the people that are victims of the attack, they will go after the most vulnerable with the highest, like, ransomware potential, and I… 2 times in the scene

The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained Mar 31, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:49 unnamed speaker yeah, uh, I mean, there is going to be some sort of, like, power law response here, where of the people that, that are victims of the attack, they will go after the most vulnerable with the highest, like, ransomware potential, and I think… 2 times in the scene

OpenAI drops GPT-5.4, Iran War fallout, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN Mar 7, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 3:42 unnamed speaker Um, Brendan over at Mercore says, GPT-Five. 2 times in the scene

The AI lab market map, Robinhood brings startups to retail, GLPs & hedge funds | Diet TBPN Feb 19, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:20 Jordi Hays They have a new fund that has Databricks, Mercore, Revolut, Airwallex, Boom, Supersonic, Ramp, Aura, and Stripe, which is signed and pending, closed. 2 times in the scene

Wednesday’s Diet TBPN Nov 13, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 16:24 Jordi Hays If you look at their twenty-twenty fund, they have Mercore, they have Fireworks.

Google Makes MAJOR Cancer Research Breakthrough | Diet TBPN Oct 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:35 unnamed speaker Like, what is the Mercor scale AI of AI bio?

Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories Sep 6, 2025 · 4 mentions

Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot Aug 16, 2025 · 2 mentions

Weekly Recap: The Soham Parekh Drama, Meta Attacks OpenAI, Trump's Mega Bill Jul 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:04:05 Jordi Hays Or, you know, everyone from, uh, Mercor to Labelbox, uh, to Handshake, a lot of different people competing for that market.

Apple Considers New AI partnership Jul 1, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 7:29 John Coogan You know, these, these data brokers like Mercore and scale and whatnot, like you should be able to get a, you know, near the frontier level model done.

Weekly Recap: Elon's Starship Explodes, OpenAI's Defense Contract, Nvidia's Robots, We Test Cluely Jun 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:17 John Coogan For a while as part of the reason why Mercore had been, and they also brought a big function in, in house because for some of the more complex tasks, it makes sense to generate the reinforcement learning data yourself.

Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale Jun 14, 2025 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 49:12 unnamed speaker But they should also be able to go to somebody like scale AI or Mercore and just say like, Hey, we want to build a transcription product and we're just gonna make it ourselves.
  • ▶ 2:07:00 unnamed speaker I mean, we work with Mercore right now, for example. 2 times in the scene

Weekend Special: Elon Recap, Balaji, Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Crypto Day + Thiel Fellows May 31, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:33:40 Sigil Wen I mean, right now, like, it's so funny, like there's Mercore, but then the flat founder of Cluley is like building software that hacks the Mercore interviews. 2 times in the scene

Brendan Foody on using AI to predict job performance and scaling from $1M to $100M in 11 months Mar 24, 2025 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 0:02 John Coogan Brendan from Mercore. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 2:52 John Coogan Like, you go to Mercore, you get placed, are you placing people in white collar jobs, blue collar jobs, everything, any specific niches? 6 times in the scene
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