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Who is Brendan Foody, founder of $10bn AI startup Mercor?
short by / on Thursday, 13 November, 2025
Brendan Foody walked out of Georgetown University before finals, choosing to skip classes and drop out to build something bigger. That decision led to Mercor, the AI startup now valued at $10 billion. Foody and his co-founders built a human-in-the-loop system that uses expert evaluations to train AI, turning his risky exit from college into a groundbreaking tech success.
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