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Brendan (can/do)

👁 Mercor

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ceo @mercor_ai | organizing human intelligence

San Francisco, CA

Joined March 2020

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Jun 6
AI progress requires (1) compute, (2) algorithms, and (3) data. - The leading compute company is worth $5 trillion. - The leading model company is worth $1 trillion. - @mercor_ai is the leading data company and is currently valued orders of magnitude lower. There's an
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Sep 18, 2024
Mercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability. @mercor_ai raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by @victoralazarte and @bgurley at @benchmark, with participation from @peterthiel, @jack, @adamdangelo, and @LHSummers.
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Oct 27, 2025
We’ve raised our $350M Series C at a $10B valuation from @felicis, @benchmark, and @generalcatalyst. Just 2 years after starting, Mercor is paying $1.5 million per day to experts in our marketplace. We’re creating a new category of work in the AI economy, where software
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Sep 15, 2025
Mercor (@mercor_ai) scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making us the fastest growing company of all time. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July, 18% WoW growth in August, and 19% WoW growth in September. One trend
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Feb 22, 2025
we hired 800 people this week
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Jun 30, 2025
Mercor (@mercor_ai) is now working with 6 out of the Magnificent 7, all of the top 5 AI labs, and most of the top application layer companies. One trend is common across every customer: we are entering The Era of Evals. RL is becoming so effective that models will be able to
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Mar 20, 2025
Mercor scaled from $1M - $100M in annual revenue run rate in 11 months, making us the fastest growing company in the world. We averaged 41% monthly growth in 2024, then grew 55% in January, and 87% in February. We also profited $1M+ last month, but the largest barrier to growth
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Oct 7, 2025
the threshold for unicorn should change to $1B in revenue. unicorns aren’t supposed to be this common…
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Aug 28, 2025
new office 🚀
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Mar 4, 2025
THE SECRET MERCOR MASTER PLAN Imagine a world where Jeff Bezos is a hedge fund investor, Howard Shultz is a salesman, and Reed Hastings is a teacher. That was the world we lived in, not so long ago. These are the jobs they were doing before they found the best use for their
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Sep 21, 2025
just found out someone on our team pays for an Uber to go 226 feet to his apartment across the street
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Sep 11, 2025
ipo by eoy
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Sep 3, 2024
unicorn by eoy
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Jul 21, 2025
Mercor’s net retention is 1605% with zero churn on a 9 figure run rate in enterprise. Is annually recurring revenue (ARR) better than annualized run rate or is retention all that matters?
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👁 Mercor
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Sep 15, 2025
Article
The Economy will become an RL Environment Machine
Introduction Every technological revolution has sparked fears of job loss. The industrial revolution displaced domestic producers with machines. The computer revolution displaced manual clerical work...

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