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Brendan Foody

Mercor co-founder and CEO; AI recruiting platform

Every podcast episode featuring Brendan Foody that Attunex has found: 22 interviews and appearances across 14 shows between 2024 and 2026. Most often on TBPN (4), The Frontier with Brendan Foody (3) and The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch (2). Often in conversation with Elad Gil, Harry Stebbings and Sarah Guo. Follow Brendan in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.

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Updated 2026-10-14.

  1. Liam Fedus - Co-Founder of Periodic Labs
    The Frontier with Brendan Foody

    Liam Fedus is co-founder of Periodic Labs. He co-created ChatGPT and led post-training as VP of research at OpenAI before leaving to start the company with Ekin Dogus Cubuk. He and Brendan discuss…

    2026-10-01
  2. Gabe Pereyra - President & Co-Founder of Harvey
    The Frontier with Brendan Foody

    Gabe Pereyra is co-founder and president of Harvey. He was a researcher at Google Brain and DeepMind before starting the company with Winston Weinberg. He and Brendan discuss why big law firms wanted…

    2026-09-18
  3. Introducing The Frontier with Brendan Foody
    The Frontier with Brendan Foody

    Brendan Foody, CEO and co-founder of Mercor, talks to the researchers and founders building AI about what the frontier will look like and what's holding it back.

    2026-09-14
  4. 红杉「Own Your Intelligence」系列专题 3:Mercor-在强化学习环境里究竟有什么
    AI智识录AI

    红杉资本近期发起了一个名为「Own Your Intelligence」的系列专题分享,邀请在"企业自建智能"方面实践最多的几家公司,围绕战略理念、模型后训练、强化学习环境与垂直落地四大议题做系统分享。 强化学习底层细节 由 Mercor CEO Brendan Foody 拆解。Mercor 是一家以 AI 匹配全球顶尖人才重塑真实工作流的企业。本期他详解了 RL 环境的三要素: 业务上下文…

    2026-08-13
  5. 20VC: Mercor CEO on Why Application Layer Companies Have No Defensibility, The Model is the Product | Token Spend Will Exceed Headcount Spend in 5 Years | The True Cost of Hiring AI Researchers in the Valley Today with Brendan Foody
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Brendan Foody is the Founder and CEO @ Mercor, one of the leading data providers to the largest labs on the planet including OpenAI. In the last two years, Brendan has scaled the company to $1.5BN in…

    2026-06-01
  6. Brendan Foody (Mercor) - Agentic Data and the Future of AI
    Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

    Brendan Foody co-founded Mercor, a recruiting startup that helps Silicon Valley's top AI labs train their models to do professional-level reasoning by matching skilled workers with enterprise…

    2026-04-15
  7. Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
    Conversations with Tyler

    At 22, Brendan Foody is both the youngest Conversations with Tyler guest ever and the youngest unicorn founder on record. His company Mercor hires the experts who train frontier AI models—from poets…

    2026-01-07
  8. How Experts Teach AI to Work: Brendan Foody on Conversations with Tyler
    AI Podcast Summaries from Transcripted.ai (VIDEO)AI

    When experts become teachers, AI's productivity leaps—Tyler Cowen and Brendan Foody unpack how human graders are rewriting knowledge work. This condensed version trims a 1-hour conversation to 4…

    2026-01-07
  9. The Best of 2025 (So Far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

    2025 has thus far been a year of great leaps and advances in AI technology. And Sarah and Elad have spoken with some of the most enterprising founders and scientific minds in the field of AI today.…

    2025-10-31
  10. Suno Sparks Music Rights Firestorm, Travis Kelce’s Six Flags Play | Philip Johnston, Justin Murphy, Darren Rovell, Guillermo Rauch, Brendan Foody
    TBPN

    (01:11) - Suno App Stirs Debate Over Music Rights (39:23) - Travis Kelce Joins Six Flags Stake (49:05) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (01:00:09) - Philip Johnston, founder of Star Cloud, discusses the…

    2025-10-27
  11. AI開発は”地球が壊れるほどのニーズ”?【Mercor CEO - Brendan Foody 感想戦】
    起業の履歴書Mentioned

    今回はMercor CEOのBrendan Foodyのインタビューの感想戦を行いました。 https://youtu.be/4xs1TRlJPiQ を見てからだと、より楽しめます。 【目次】 (00:00) AI開発は"地球が壊れるほどのニーズ" (03:04) AI開発の5つのキーパーツ (04:35) AIラボへのデータ献上の時代? 【起業の履歴書について】 起業の履歴書は「AI…

    2025-10-01
  12. First Block: Interview with Brendan Foody, Co-Founder & CEO of Mercor
    Notion Podcast

    Welcome to First Block, a Notion series where founders from the world's leading companies tell us about the many "firsts" of their startup journeys. We explore the ups and downs that founders face as…

    2025-09-29
  13. 人間は「AIの先生」になる?【Mercor CEO - Brendan Foody】
    起業の履歴書Mentioned

    今回はMercorというAIスタートアップCEOのBrendan Foodyのインタビューを元に「AI時代に新しく生まれた仕事」について話しました。 【目次】 (00:00) 今回のテーマ (00:15) 最速成長AI企業 Mercorの概要 (03:05) 人間は「AIの先生」になる (07:27) 人間の役割はいつまで続くのか (09:18) 「評価の時代」とは何か 【起業の履歴書について】…

    2025-09-28
  14. Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
    mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later

    Podcast : Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO…

    2025-09-27
  15. Meta Connect Recap, 𝕏 Timeline Reactions | Louis Mosley, Brendan Foody, Darren Mowry, Kayvon Beykpour, Mukund Jha, Noah Löfquist, Dan Lahav, Ben Milne
    TBPN

    (00:30) - Meta Connect Reactions (05:25) - The Timeline Reacts to Meta Connect (40:13) - 𝕏 Timeline Reactions (47:51) - Louis Mosley, head of Palantir's UK and European operations, discusses the…

    2025-09-18
  16. Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
    Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

    Brendan Foody is the CEO and co-founder of Mercor, the fastest-growing company in history to go from $1M to $500M in revenue (in just 17 months!). At 22, he is also the youngest American unicorn…

    2025-09-18
  17. Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling
    mbanerjeepalmer+listennotes 's Listen Later

    Podcast : Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of…

    2025-09-17
  18. 20VC: Mercor: From $1M to $500M in 17 Months: The Fastest Growing Company in the World | How to Think About Margins and Revenue Sustainability in AI | Why Evaluation Benchmarks in AI are BS Today with Brendan Foody
    The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

    Brendan Foody is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Mercor, the fastest growing company in history. The company solves talent allocation in the AI economy and they have scaled from $1M to $500M in revenue in…

    2025-09-15
  19. DOGE’s AI for SEC Rule Cuts, AI Recruiting, Cursor’s Data, and Databricks Disruptor | Sep 2, 2025
    The Information's TITV

    The Information's Sylvia Varnham O'Regan talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about the SEC's use of AI. We also talk with Mercor CEO Brendan Foody about how AI could overhaul recruiting and Chalk CEO…

    2025-09-03
  20. TWiST 500 interviews with Cortical Labs, Turing, AND Mercor | E2159
    This Week in Startups

    Today's show: Alex is back with three more awesome interviews with founders on the bleeding edge of innovative tech. Dr. Hon Weng Chong walks us through the basics of biological computing and…

    2025-08-01
  21. Hims & Hers Stock Drops Over 30%, All-In Launches Ultra Premium Tequila | Crémieux, Clément Delangue, Emmett Shear, Brendan Foody, Sam Schwager, Zach Lloyd, Dara Ladjevardian, Amjad Masad, Angus Muffatti
    TBPN

    (04:30) - Anthropic Clears Legal Hurdle on AI Data (11:32) - All-In Launches Ultra Premium Tequila (30:45) - Timeline (45:17) - Hims & Hers Stock Drops Over 30% (56:09) - Ford is Scrambling For…

    2025-06-24
  22. Ep 68: CEO of Mercor Brendan Foody on Evals Replacing Knowledge Work, AI x Hiring Today & the Future of Data Labeling
    Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron

    Brendan Foody is the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, a company building the infrastructure for AI-native labor markets. Mercor’s platform is already used by top AI labs to label data, evaluate human…

    2025-06-04
  23. From Job Displacement to AI Trainers, Brendan Foody on Work in the AI Age
    No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

    On this episode of No Priors, Sarah and Elad sit down with Brendan Foody, CEO and cofounder of Mercor, to discuss the company’s rapid growth and their vision for the future of the labor market. They…

    2025-04-10
  24. David Senra, Delian Asparouhov, Brendan Foody, Jake Adler, Apple Makes Moves, Hims & Hers
    TBPN

    TBPN.com is made possible by: Ramp - https://ramp.com Eight Sleep - https://eightsleep.com/tbpn Wander - https://wander.com/tbpn Public - https://public.com AdQuick - https://adquick.com Bezel -…

    2025-03-20
  25. E79: Now at $2B Valuation: Mercor CEO On How They Started
    "Turpentine VC" | Venture Capital and Investing

    This week on Turpentine VC, we are releasing an episode from 1 to 100 hosted by Usman Hanif. Usman interviews Brendan Foody, founder and CEO of Marcor, an AI-powered recruitment platform that…

    2025-02-25
  26. Greenhouse Verified & Mercor Gets $30 Million
    Rec Tech: the Recruiting Technology PodcastMentioned

    Mercor is an AI hiring platform that enables top tech companies and leading AI labs to hire experts at tech companies across software engineering, law, chemistry, finance, and many other professions.…

    2024-09-26
  27. 1 to 100: Mercor
    "1 to 100" | Hypergrowth Startups Worth Joining

    In this episode of 1 to 100, Usman Hanif sits down with Brendan Foody, Co-founder and CEO at Mercor, an AI-powered platform that automates the hiring process. Mercor has grown from zero to mid…

    2024-09-04
  28. #170 - BRENDAN FOODY
    POD OF JAKEMentioned

    Brendan is Co-Founder & CEO of Mercor, a global labor market using AI to find optimal matches between people and work opportunities. He and his co-founders were selected as Thiel Fellows as part of…

    2024-04-24