Mercor's CEO: the whole company pulled an all-nighter to win a DeepMind pilot
himanshustwts · x · 2026-10-17
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody recalls that when his startup earned a pilot with DeepMind in 2024, the entire company pulled an all-nighter to handwrite all the data within 24 hours: "Building a legendary company requires extreme intensity, especially in the early days."
Commentator Himanshu notes how hard it is to convert frontier-lab pilots into paid ones, in any industry—a real case of extreme early-stage hustle buying enterprise trust.
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