The founders of Mercor, a fast-growing AI-based recruiting startup, have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires at just 22 years old, beating Mark Zuckerberg, who became a billionaire at 23 in 2008.
According to Forbes, Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, three friends who started Mercor in San Francisco recently raised $350 million in new funding. This round valued their company at $10 billion, officially making each of them a billionaire.
Mercor uses artificial intelligence to help companies hire faster and smarter, matching people to jobs using data and automation. What started as a small idea among friends has now become one of the most talked-about startups in Silicon Valley.
Two of the co-founders, Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha, are Indian Americans. They first met at Bellarmine College Preparatory, an all-boys school in San Jose, California. Both were top members of their school’s debate team and made history by becoming the first duo to win all three national policy debate tournaments in a single year.
Their journey from high school friends to billionaires shows how new technology especially AI, is creating opportunities for young innovators to build global companies faster than ever before.
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