How Mercor caught the eval wave

One of our customers introduced us to the co founders of xai. They had us in two days later to the Tesla office and we met the entire XAI co founding team except for Elon and they were super excited about our focus on the quality of the experts. We just knew from that point forward that the market was about to change radically and we needed to be at the frontier of that. Fast forward a few months one of the crowdsourcing players came to us and actually used our platform to hire over a thousand people. We started getting flooded with support tickets about how those people weren't getting paid. We realized that a lot of the incumbents were resting on their laurels with respect to what was needed in the experiences they were creating for talent in their marketplaces to help improve models. And there was this opportunity to work directly with the labs in a way that kept the dignity of the experts in the marketplace, paid them extremely well and sort of cut out the middlemen and then the rest is history.