Mercor co-founders Adarsh Hiremath and Brendan Foody in San Francisco.
Photographer: Damien Maloney for Bloomberg BusinessweekThe $10 Billion Startup Training AI to Replace the White-Collar Workforce
Mercor is promising to replicate most professional work. It was also co-founded by twentysomethings who previously never held a real job.
When Tasha Kozak, a social worker for the Hillsborough County Public Schools in Tampa, met the family, they were living in a car. The three children’s grades had been slipping. The mother was exhausted. The father was out of the picture. Kozak began helping them connect to housing resources. She checked in with the children every couple of days at school. She called the mother every three or four. After several months the family found stable housing. The children began to improve in school. “I saw the mom got her glow back, and she started getting more consistent work shifts,” Kozak says.