How Mercor caught the eval wave

20 Sept 2025 · 1 min
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Lenny Rachitsky recounts how Mercor's introduction to XAI co-founders (met at Tesla office) convinced them to prioritize expert quality, anticipating a radical market shift. A subsequent incident—another crowdsourcing company hiring 1,000+ people via Mercor and those workers not being paid—revealed incumbents' poor talent experiences and motivated Mercor to work directly with labs, pay experts well, and remove middlemen.

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