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Mercor is solving global labor matching with models that understand human ability.
@mercor_ai
raised a $30M Series A at a $250M valuation, led by
@victoralazarte
and
@bgurley
at
@benchmark
, with participation from
@peterthiel
,
@jack
,
@adamdangelo
, and
@LHSummers
.
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i love waking up to dozen of texts in India saying "hi sir"
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I'm honored to receive the Thiel Fellowship alongside my legendary cofounders
@adarsh_exe
and
@suryamidha
This marks one of the few times in history that an entire cofounding team has received the fellowship. We couldn't be more proud of
@mercor_ai
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The worst part about living in the future is that everyone thinks we’re the crazy ones
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Engineers being interested in hard technical problems over the impact of their work is one of the largest hinderances to global progress
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Excited to announce that Mercor matched over 500 people with jobs in the last month alone, supplying talent to leading AI labs.
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I am seeking an apprentice for
@mercor_ai
.
Mercor is one of the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley, and we're hiring a chief of staff. We work in FiDi 5-6 days a week.
Apply here:
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It was fun to speak at MIT yesterday on the same stage as
@AravSrinivas
and
@YLeCun
The energy in the ecosystem is ecstatic.
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I'm amazed at how many application layer AI companies don't have their own evals. I genuinely think this is the most pervasive engineering mistake in Silicon Valley right now.
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reflecting on my career path, I'm glad I didn't take Handshake's recommendation to become a forklift operator
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I remember building an AI interviewer prototype before GPT-4 came out in my dorm room last year. After Mercor launched the first AI interviewer last summer, it's been fun to see that's it's become it's own product category
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When we dropped out, Mercor was just getting started. I couldn't be more proud of the team for what we've built it to today and all that is to come.
Today, we're announcing $3.6M in funding and the launch of our platform, which uses AI to assess and match talent with companies. Our round is led by
@generalcatalyst
and includes participation from
@ScottDSandell
(CEO of NEA),
@Soma_Capital
,
@Link_Ventures
, and others.
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Applications close today at 5pm for the Unleashed Hackathon that we're co-hosting this weekend at Mercor offices with
@cognition_labs
and
@etched_inc
.
Prizes are insane and participants get Devin access.
Apply here:
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It's crazy that LLM inference providers are burning billions of dollars to gain market share when the switching costs are almost zero. To switch inference providers, we need to modify one line of code. Sometimes, we'll have to spend a few dollars to fine-tune the model again.
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Hiring angel investors is under rated. So far,
@mercor_ai
has hired 2 angel investors and we’re actively hiring another 2
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@khushkhushkhush
@mercor_ai
khushi you made so much of this possible. while I've always known you as a friend, I'm rooting for you as you begin investing. I'm sure any company would be lucky to have you on their cap table
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We said the 4th of July was off so everyone just came to our apartment to keep working
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A good litmus test for how well a business will perform as the cost of software approaches 0 is how the company would do if their entire code base was leaked.
Platforms with strong network effects would be mostly unaffected. Software businesses with purely technical moats will
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JPM’s cash management platform looks like a phishing scam. I just wired them $15M so hopefully everything goes okay.
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vc cold emails should be mandated to have unsubscribe buttons
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I would pay $10 / month to remove YouTube shorts from YouTube.
Short form video likely juices short term engagement as the cost of creating long term value for users.
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despite sending millions of dollars a year on
@Wise
, they froze our account asking for the birthday and address of someone we sent $800 to a year and a half ago
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I've never heard a compelling case against labor aggregation. It seems inevitable that's how markets will develop, but almost no companies are acting on it...
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On average people in India work so much harder than people in the US. It blows my mind that they aren’t given more opportunities.
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What makes people like Elon Musk or Steve Jobs so special is that they have can-do attitudes.
No one else thought it was possible to build a successful rocket company or to complete the first prototype of the iPhone in under 2 weeks, but they knew that it was.
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creating thousands of jobs this month alone feels awesome. i'm starting to understand the profound impact that labor aggregation will have on real people's lives
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Couldn't be more thrilled to work with
@bonatsos
and
@max_rimpel
How can AI simplify & expedite the hiring process?
Enter
@mercor_ai
, the platform that finds, vets, & pays skilled workers.
We're thrilled to lead its $3.6M round & welcome,
@BrendanFoody
,
@adarsh_exe
,
@suryamidha
, & team to the GC family!
Explore ↓
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Startup outcomes scale exponentially while dilution scales linearly. Founders optimize too much for ownership and too little for building legendary companies.
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It was fun to discuss the technology we're building to solve labor matching. Thank you for the time
@0FJAKE
New episode:
#170
- BRENDAN FOODY (
@BrendanFoody
)
A 2024 Thiel Fellow, Brendan and his cofounders
@adarsh_exe
and
@suryamidha
(both also Thiel Fellows) are building a global labor market that uses AI to find optimal matches between people and work opportunities. It's called
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also shoutout to all of the competitors that launched "the first AI interviewer" this year
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Apps used to be written with code. Now they’re written with data.
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Build something useful for the leading indicators of the global economy
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Everyone under estimates how large their secondary networks are. Asking close friends for help of their close friends expands surface area by at least an order of magnitude.
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Writing my first check to
@josephsemrai
in honor of a new fellowship class: a four year update.
i took the $100k check and invested it in 10 companies.
that $100k is now $750k based on current marks. 3 of the companies died, 2 are acquired, 5 are still cranking
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It’s ridiculous how many companies will become commoditized as AI tools make developers 1000x more productive.
Companies like Notion, Slack, and Docusign will be cloned and become worthless.
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Companies will soon iterate on their post training data sets just like they’d iterate on their codebase. It will be a years long process to refine their core IP.
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Listen to my talk at MIT about AI breakthroughs and the roles humans will play in teaching the next generation of models
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75 comments in the first 10 minutes. Go apply!
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Mercor loves VectorShift. Checkout the new pod!
On the
@VectorShiftAI
podcast, I got a chance to sit down with
@BrendanFoody
, CEO of
@mercor_ai
. Mercor is an AI-powered platform that sources, vets, and pays your employees.
They just announced their $3.6M seed funding round.
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Wayne Gretzky gave the best business advice I've ever heard: "Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been."
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i had such a hard time sleeping last night because i kept thinking about the economic value labor aggregation creates
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elon saying agi in two years is so based.
that's what i call a can-do attitude
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250,000 impressions in under 24 hours 🤯
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@unusual_whales
Few people understand the effect that AI is going to have on labor aggregation. Super proud to be at the forefront of this at
@mercor_ai
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The more humans I meet, the more bullish I become on AGI
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very few people understand how different work will be in 5 years
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when I was in school I felt like so many people struggled to balance what they were passionate about with impact with what would make the most money.
I wish more people realized that startups are the most impactful, the most exciting, and the most lucrative by far
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The top characteristic of people I like to hire is that others call them “unhireable”
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Congratulations to Ravichandran Ashwin on becoming the first Indian to claim 100 wickets against England
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Many claim AGI may bring near perfect software, but the physical world will lag far behind. I often wonder how true this is.
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not sure if I'm missing out on 8d mind games but they keep sending us cold emails then not joining meetings
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Averaging 10 interviews a minute and Google can’t keep up with our rate limits 😬
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I’m going to miss capitalism when we’re in a post AGI world
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The interface takes 20 seconds to load and looks like this
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The economics of angel investment seem more incentive aligned with adding value than VC.
Angels collect 100% of upside while venture partners collect a small fraction.
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I underestimated the impact of culture before I founded
@mercor_ai
.
Culture is what people do when no one is watching and no one is watching the vast majority of the time.
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Buying, selling, and renting legit check below. Please comment if we've done a deal - Thanks!
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@stanine
This is exactly what does.
We use language models to analyze resumes, evaluate GitHubs, and even interview candidates.
I’m happy to give you free access to tools if that would be helpful?
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@victoralazarte
@adarsh_exe
@suryamidha
@mercor_ai
Thank you Victor! We chose Benchmark because of you and it's one of the best decisions we've ever made
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@annembrandes
@adarsh_exe
@suryamidha
thank you so much Anne! We couldn't have done it without your help
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Repeated demonstrations of the efficacy of synthetic data should remove any skepticism about rapid advancements in LLMs.
Synthetic data for the win 🥇
And it is the season of AI for math/science
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Multi-turn data is incredibly expensive today. Single answers go for $20-$200 depending on quality.
Assuming markets are somewhat efficient, this is a reasonable proxy for the atomic costs to aggregate "new data" for LLMs.
Given (a) we've exhausted a non-trivial fraction of
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@josephsemrai
@mercor_ai
@victoralazarte
@bgurley
@benchmark
@peterthiel
@jack
@adamdangelo
@LHSummers
appreciate all of your support
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This has been throwing me off because no one referred to it as South Bay growing up in Menlo Park, but now everyone calls it South Bay
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Devin made this coin at the Mercor Hackathon this weekend 🚀
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@RobertWachen
are among the most impressive founders in Silicon Valley. Thrilled to be along for the ride
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