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.  ---------------------------------------------- In Today's Episode We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:24 Why My Mother Thought I Was Selling Drugs as a Kid 06:02 In The Time My Peers Graduated, I Created a $10BN Business; Is College Worth it? 12:16 Scale, Surge, Mercor, Turing: How Do Data Providers Differentiate 18:40 Scaling from $1M to $500M: We Quadrupled Since Scale was Acquired 25:19 Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are Total BS 33:24 Is There Too Much Cash in Private Markets? 35:33 Revenue Sustainability in AI Companies 36:39 Should Investors Give a S*** About Margins When Analysing AI Companies 41:...