Which data company should a future founder join? Anonymous vote puts Mercor on top with 13 votes
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-26
FinanceYF5 polled "which data company should an ambitious future founder join?" and compiled a Frontier List. Top picks: Mercor (13 votes, 250+ staff), Fleet (11), Proximal (10), Surge (9), AfterQuery (8), Mechanize (7), micro1 (6). Voters couldn't pick their own employers and the poll author didn't vote; the author discloses stakes in AfterQuery, Fleet and several listed companies. The list spans 30+ firms including OpenAI and Anthropic data teams.
More from Venture
- How YouTube turned a $1B piracy lawsuit into a $60B-a-year business with Content ID — aakashgupta · 2026-09-26
- Sacks: Anthropic and OpenAI are on a hamster wheel — lose the frontier and they go to zero — markjeffrey · 2026-09-26
- SEO Influencer Fei Faces Backlash Over Unverifiable Claims and Opaque Revenue Data — gefei55 · 2026-09-26
- Home Depot opened just 22 stores in 12 years while per-store revenue rose 84% — FinanceYF5 · 2026-09-26
- OpenAI ads CPC drops from ~$20 to $2, but conversion still far behind Meta — daluoseo · 2026-09-26
- Anthropic's Top 1% Customers Now Drive 46% of Spend, Up From 25% — FinanceYF5 · 2026-09-26