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Human Data @ Mercor

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2020
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@BrendanFoody
Brendan (can/do)
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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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@BrendanFoody
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Jeff Bezos built Amazon off a simple question: “What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?” The answer is to build around the things that are stable in time. For Amazon, it was knowing their customers will always want more selection, lower prices and faster delivery. For
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@BrendanFoody
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AI has its PhD and now it’s on the job market. Introducing the AI Productivity Index (APEX), a benchmark that measures how well we’ve automated the most valuable industries in the world. Most benchmarks study abstract capabilities. APEX evaluates model performance on real
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@mercor_ai
Mercor
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Last Friday, Mercor hosted the Future of Work with @generalcatalyst. We featured panelists @suryamidha, Co-founder & COO of Mercor, @Amresh__S, Director, Operations of Mercor, @_zach_richards_, Strategic Projects Lead at Mercor, and Kashyap Murali @katchu11, Member of the
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@BrendanFoody
Brendan (can/do)
2 months
After years of watching Lenny's podcast, it was incredible to do an episode together. The entire economy is becoming an RL environment machine and catalyzing Mercor's unprecedented growth.
@lennysan
Lenny Rachitsky
2 months
How a 22-year-old dyslexic dropout created the fastest revenue-growing business in history—$1M to $500M in just 17 months. @BrendanFoody discovered that AI labs were facing a critical bottleneck: they needed human experts to create "evals"—tests that teach models what correct
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@peterfenton
Peter Fenton
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@mercor_ai just broke every growth record in @benchmark’s history. Their team defines entrepreneurial brilliance, perfectly leveraging the biggest labor transformation of our lifetime
@BrendanFoody
Brendan (can/do)
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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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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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@BrendanFoody
Brendan (can/do)
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mercor is 1% of the way there
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@peterfenton
Peter Fenton
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The meteoric rise of @mercor_ai becomes clear once you meet the founders. I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined their board and will be working closely with them alongside Sundeep Jain, who brings exceptional marketplace expertise. They’ve quickly established themselves as the
@Forbes
Forbes
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AI’s Next Job? Recruiting People To Train More AI https://t.co/dCdUw0fIjW #Cloud100
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@BrendanFoody
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new office 🚀
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dr. jack morris
3 months
the OCR conjecture: some examples include artifacts such as OCRV ROOT, which indicate the training data may have been reading between the lines: OpenAI is scanning books (for some reason the model loves mentioning how many deaf people live in Malaysia)
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@BrendanFoody
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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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@BrendanFoody
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@ArfurRock Fundraises are too distracting when profitable :)
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@mercor_ai
Mercor
5 months
Mercor connects experts in their field with leading AI labs to test, challenge, and improve frontier AI models. Whether you’re a software engineer, PhD, consultant, or doctor, you can earn up to $200/hr while working on your own terms. Apply today at https://t.co/hqHGl1LHEe.
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@tanayj
Tanay Jaipuria
5 months
Good overview of current pricing models of AI agents by @medinism @poyark
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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
5 months
Very impressed with Veo 3 and all the things people are finding on r/aivideo etc. Makes a big difference qualitatively when you add audio. There are a few macro aspects to video generation that may not be fully appreciated: 1. Video is the highest bandwidth input to brain. Not
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Gina Acosta
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It's been only a day since Google dropped Veo 3. The new model creates video and audio simultaneously from a single prompt! Here are 13 wild examples so far: 1. Self-aware AI characters https://t.co/1HYcoHzJaP
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@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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An attempt to explain (current) ChatGPT versions. I still run into many, many people who don't know that: - o3 is the obvious best thing for important/hard things. It is a reasoning model that is much stronger than 4o and if you are using ChatGPT professionally and not using o3
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@lennysan
Lenny Rachitsky
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If you're frustrated at work, consider joining a smaller company
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