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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

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

Sep 18, 2025 · 1h 6m
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  • Brendan Foody's Mercor grew from $1M to $500M in just 17 months by identifying that expert evals are AI progress bottleneck
  • Work with 6 Magnificent 7 companies and top 5 AI labs; evals and training data creation has become critical path for AI advancement
  • Jobs with 'elastic demand' remain most valuable as AI advances; youngest unicorn founder at 22 demonstrates early identification of structural AI market shifts

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