Mercor

A profile (citing Forbes and The Wall Street Journal) of Mercor co-founder Surya Midha describes how he, Brendan Foody and Adarsh Hiremath dropped out of college in 2023 to found the AI-recruiting-turned-data-labeling startup Mercor, which reached a $10 billion valuation in late 2025, making all three 22-year-old founders among the world's youngest self-made billionaires.