Brendan Foody

Brendan Foody is the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, the fastest-growing startup in the world. Mercor supports model development for all of the leading AI labs, and scaled its revenue run rate from $1-500M in just 17 months. Backed by investors such as Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, and Larry Summers, the company is headquartered in San Francisco. As a Thiel Fellow, Brendan dropped out of Georgetown to focus on Mercor full-time in 2023. He previously pursued entrepreneurship by starting a cloud consulting business in high school. Today, he is driven by a mission to solve talent allocation in the AI economy.