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Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: recommendation
18 Sept 2025 Lenny's Podcast Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody (CEO of Mercor)
“Tying to the point around initiative and that you can just do things, I encourage everyone, especially with AI and it being so much easier to build, just take the initiative to go out and build products and talk with customers and take that leap of faith because I think that that is in so many ways the largest barrier to more innovation in the economy in any way that we can support that.”
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- Brendan Foody
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- 18 Sept 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah. Yeah. So it's kind of what this is trying to be. Well, like there's a Kickstarter. He started that welding to that you could help. It's really easy. Brendan, is there anything else that you wanted to share or touch on or maybe leave listeners with before we get to our very exciting lightning round? Tying to the point around initiative and that you can just do things, I encourage everyone, especially with AI and it being so much easier to build, just take the initiative to go out and build products and talk with customers and take that leap of faith because I think that that is in so many ways the largest barrier to more innovation in the economy in any way that we can support that. Yeah, there's so many people that just nothing. Let's not bash the podcast, but just listen to podcasts, read posts, just keep reading and listening and don't do anything with that information. And there's never been an easier time to actually build stuff and try stuff. So definitely take that advice. Just you can do things. You should move your donut stand 50 feet and get out of their jurisdiction. Yeah. Okay. Brennan, with that, we've reached a very exciting lightning round. I've got five questions for you. Are you ready? All set. What are two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people?…
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