Mercor's Indian-American Co-founders, Surya Midha and Adarsh Hiremath, first met at the age of 10 while competing in school debate tournaments. The duo later joined the debate team at Bellarmine College Preparatory in US' California and met their third Co-founder, Brendan Foody, at the age of 14, also through the debate team. All three are now world's youngest self-made billionaires.