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Fortune
Fortune
Eva Roytburg

Meet the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, who skipped finals to make an empire out of teaching AI 'what only humans know'

Mercor Founders - Adarsh Hiremath, Brendan Foody (Credit: Photos courtesy of Mercor)

In the spring of 2023, while his classmates at Georgetown were cramming for finals, Brendan Foody was busy testing out his new theory of work.

“I knew I wanted to drop out before finals my sophomore year,” he told Fortune. “I just didn’t go to finals.”

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