Overview
- Forbes identified Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha as the youngest self-made billionaires following Mercor’s new $10 billion valuation.
- Mercor raised $350 million in fresh financing led by Felicis Ventures, according to multiple reports.
- The founders’ roles are Foody as CEO, Hiremath as CTO and Midha as board chairman.
- All three are Thiel Fellows who left Harvard or Georgetown to build the company full-time.
- Mercor shifted from software recruiting to AI data-labeling and training services that supply human expertise to develop and refine models, as reported in the coverage.