Brendan Foody
CEO & Co-Founder @ Mercor
Co-founded Mercor, an AI talent marketplace. World's youngest self-made billionaire at 22.
βWhy experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history, covering AI product work, product design, and strategic decision-making.β
Career History
| Company | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Mercor | CEO & Co-Founder | 2023-present |
| Seros | CEO & Founder | ~2021-~2023 |
| Interos Inc. | Consultant | ~2020-~2021 |
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βYeah. Well, it ties to what I said earlier about how if the model is the product, evals are the PRD, but also subsequently the sales collateral, right? Because evals are what you give to researchers t...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βSo from there, we start working with all of the top AI labs. We grew from 1 to 400 million in revenue run rate in 16 months, and it's been an extraordinary journey and super exciting.β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βExactly. So fastest ascent in history, which is an exciting statistic we're very proud of.β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βThey may. The data landscape historically has included two kinds of data. The first is supervised fine-tuning data, which is input/output. When people think about fine-tuning in the historical sense, ...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βExactly. Applying all of the criteria of what good looks like similar to how the TA might apply the professor's criteria of does the student's response meet this criteria or this criteria plus however...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βSo the key question is how long there's going to be things in the economy that humans can do that AI can't do? And I think there's certainly a bucket of people that say we're going to have superintell...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βIt speaks to conversations I've had with a lot of researchers and executives at top labs, which is that it's highly likely that the entire economy will become an aural environment machine, building ou...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βSo I more mean how much capacity for demand there is in that industry. So I'll give a couple of examples. In accounting, I think realistically we only need so much accounting in the world. Maybe there...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βFiguring out how to leverage them and incorporate it will definitely be of paramount importance.β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βExactly, yeah. It's really unlocking, allowing the model to focus on all the right tokens, from pre-training all the right things in model context, up weighting the effective reasoning chains to enabl...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βAnd I think that there's a bunch of companies that after our success and very rapid revenue growth that started early last year have chased after that, which makes sense. And seeing that the market wa...β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
βWell, so it depends, because some models or some labs will release iteratively where they'll just improve the model behind the scenes.β
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)