Brandon

Brendan Foody is the co-founder and CEO of Mercor, an AI recruiting and workforce platform valued at approximately $10 billion. Mercor automates candidate sourcing, interviewing, and evaluation at scale, having conducted more than five million AI-assisted interviews. Foody is best known for disclosing that Mercor's internal AI agent token spend now exceeds its total employee headcount costs, a claim he made on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings that became widely cited as a leading indicator of how engineering-heavy AI companies are shifting their cost structures.