Survey ranks data companies for aspiring founders: Mercor tops with 13 votes, Anthropic data team gets 2
herbiebradley · x · 2026-09-23
A community poll asked 'which data companies should an ambitious future founder join?' Results: Mercor 13, Fleet 11, Proximal 10, Surge 9, AfterQuery 8, Mechanize 7, micro1 6, with Datacurve and OpenAI's data team at 4 each — and Anthropic's data team at just 2. A telling snapshot of prestige rankings in the AI data-supply talent market.
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