Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth — Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)

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Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Brendan Foody is the CEO and co-founder of Mercor, the fastest-growing company in history to go from $1M to $500M in revenue (in just 17 months!). At 22, he is also the youngest American unicorn founder ever. Mercor works with 6 of the Magnificent 7 and all top 5 AI labs to help them hire experts to create evaluations…

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