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20VC: Mercor: From $1M to $500M in 17 Months: The Fastest Growing Company in the World | How to Think About Margins and Revenue Sustainability in AI | Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are BS Today with Brendan Foody
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Brendan Foody is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Mercor, the fastest growing company in history. The company solves talent allocation in the AI economy and they have scaled from $1M to $500M in revenue in just 17 months. With a rumoured new funding round pricing the company at a whopping $10BN, the company has the likes of Benchmark, Felicis, Emergence, and of course, 20VC, all on their cap table.
AGENDA:
Why My Mother Thought I Was Selling Drugs as a Kid
In The Time My Peers Graduated, I Created a $10BN Business; Is College Worth it?
Scale, Surge, Mercor, Turing: How Do Data Providers Differentiate
Scaling from $1M to $500M: We Quadrupled Since Scale was Acquired
Is There Too Much Cash in Private Markets?
Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are Total BS
Revenue Sustainability in AI Companies
Should Investors Give a S*** About Margins When Analysing AI Companies
The Future of AI Model Providers: Who Wins
You Cannot Create a $10BN Company without 9-9-6 Work Culture
We Literally Have Too Much Money, We Cannot Spend It…
Quick Fire Round: OpenAI vs Anthropic, Lessons from Peter Fenton and Jack Dorsey
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