A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is building a “new category of work”; Mercor hit a $500M ARR in September and pays contractors ~$1.5M/day
Plus, perimenopause apps, Musk's mammoth pay package … X: Kevin V. Nguyen / @kevinnguyen_89 : There are a lot of young people in their early 20s running around in San Francisco rn making fortunes and potentially upending the labor market forever. @reeyopeeyo with this must-read on Mercor, a startup training AI on white-collar work. 👇 https://sfstandard.com/... Marta Bulaich / @martahari : Mercor's 22-year-old CEO Brendan Foody imagines a future in which white-collar contractors earn riches teaching machines to behave like humans. https://sfstandard.com/... Emily Shugerman / @eshugerman : killer @reeyopeeyo profile of mercor and the youngest self-made billionaires in history https://sfstandard.com/... Bluesky: Noah Arroyo / @noaharroyo : We need to stop falling for this shit. — “A world of material abundance” is not what we're building. And displacing entire categories of jobs would not be the way to get there. Stupid. — sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/s... [image] Danny Groner / @dannygroner : “When I pressed Foody on his utopian vision, and why he thinks tech companies won't hoard the spoils of the AI boom, he waved his hand and described a future in which everyone has $10 million in purchasing power, lives in a nice apartment, and works only if they want to.” Tim Newman / @tnewmsblues : “Foody envisions Mercor pays tens of billions to contractors each day as the training of machines becomes a dominant labor category. To critics, that sounds like a dystopian gig economy. But Mercor sees it as meeting demands of a future that's already taking shape.” sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/s...