Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: belief
18 Sept 2025 Lenny's Podcast Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
“I would say most often it's part time where it's like, you know, someone might work at a fan company where they're underemployed.”
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- Brendan Foody
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- 18 Sept 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…So on that, so is the idea you hire Jane, she's incredible at coding, and she now works for Anthropic, and that's her full time job doing this? Or is this like a part time thing? Is this a project thing mostly? It would sometimes be part time. Sometimes it would be full time. I would say most often it's part time where it's like, you know, someone might work at a fan company where they're underemployed. Maybe one of the ones that's moving slower where they have an extra 20 hours a week and then they're able to do this on the side or, you know, whatever the equivalent is sort of across a bunch of different industries. But we also do a lot of, you know, 40 hour a week roles as well. And these, how much are they making? Is it like, like meaningful enough for Faye engineers to spend time on this?…
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