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Brendan 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 think that previously it might have been more softer skills, but now a lot of the labs are focused on their business models of what are the economically valuable capabilities that drive revenue and leaning a lot into these professional domains.”

— Brendan Foody

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Brendan Foody
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belief
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18 Sept 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…It's such a good opportunity for me to learn so much about this. So I'm just, I'm going to ask questions. So interesting to me. How much of the experts are focused on specific concrete knowledge versus personality and like softer skills? How much of it is like, here's how you do an exam. Here's how you do an x-ray. It depends on the lab. It's a lot of both. I think that previously it might have been more softer skills, but now a lot of the labs are focused on their business models of what are the economically valuable capabilities that drive revenue and leaning a lot into these professional domains. But I think the creative side is also still really important to everyone. And so we're seeing a meaningful amount of both. Like we hired all the people from the Harvard Lampoon a couple of months ago, their comedy club to help with making models funnier. And so do all sorts of stuff like that, hiring Emmy award-winning screenwriters and everything across the board on creative capabilities that you'd look for. That is amazing. What a cool story. Yeah. I'm excited for this to kick in. How fast do these things turn around? Like, say you hired this team, like how fast are we going to see the impact potential? Is it like months? Is it years?…

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