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co-founder / cto @mercor_ai, prev @harvard
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2018
looking forward to the long partnership ahead
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
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Behind every great hire is someone who made the intro. So far, we’ve paid over $1M to people who simply shared a link. That's because great people know great people, and we’ve built a system to reward them. Mercor’s referral network is shaping the future of work, connecting top
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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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Hiremaths on 🔝
Get this asked once a month. Yes @adarsh_exe and I are related. We are cousins building the Hiremath dynasty together.
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THE MERCOR GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP Today, we're announcing the Mercor Graduate Fellowship, which awards $50,000 to support graduate students who are on track to do exceptional work, even if they haven’t done it yet. Every transformative idea starts with someone on their way—before
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@mercor_ai is the best way I've paid the bills while building my own stuff. Made $35k working part time over 3 months helping train frontier AI models, all remote. They're looking for developers from anywhere in the world: https://t.co/qzAIP9AAcY
#buildinpublic #Startups
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Today, AI model improvements depend a great deal on expert human data. Fun @NoPriorsPod with @BrendanFoody founder @mercor_ai on - how to identify outlier talent - the data we need - the future of the labor markets - verifiability, evals - if we can capture “taste”
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we learned a lot from our work in sacramento last year. call me biased, but i’m confident we’re back with something pretty damn important and tremendously reasonable. let us know what you think!
California must lead the way on AI and do it responsibly. 🚨 We’re sponsoring SB 53, a new bill that gives AI lab employees a voice and proposes public compute for researchers and startups.
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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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Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at
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Mercor is solving talent allocation in the AI economy. The difference between greatness and failure is the right person being in the right place at the right time. Putting them there is the hardest unsolved problem in capitalism. We’re excited to announce our $100M Series B at
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thank you for having me @HarryStebbings @20vcFund !
Very rarely will I do an exclusive on a company funding round. But simply put, @Mercor_ai is unlike any other. 💰 100M funding round at 2BN price in 24 months. 💪 Most intense culture in silicon valley. 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week. 🏦 70M in ARR in 2 years 👶 Average age of
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we have some people who are 20 too
@ichrvk @HarryStebbings @mercor_ai It also tends to be a red flag when your team is only made up of 22 year olds.
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we only recommended these hours to keep people from working Sundays too
If speed is the most important element in startup success. @mercor_ai will win. They work 9-9-6. That is 9AM-9PM, 6 days per week. The average age of Mercor employee… 22. Insanely good.
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