Brendan Foody

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1,144 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jun

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch · 20VC: Mercor CEO on Why Application Layer Companies Have No Defensibility, The Model is the Product | Token Spend Will Exceed Headcount Spend in 5 Years | The True Cost of Hiring AI Researchers in the Valley Today with Brendan Foody · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Every other one of the Frontier Labs has grown their relationship with us since and the company has been crushing it, but they're the only one that is.

And it would be paused because of just because of the security?

Well, there's other things happening there.

Like, obviously, I think that Meta is a unique customer because of the scale acquisition.

And so naturally, they're going to work with scale more.

But I don't want to speak too much to the specifics of a customer.

Because I read this article.

So the reason for the article was that someone on our team sent an outbound to some people at Micro One saying that we were hiring a variety of people with these very high signing bonuses.

I think one of them said $500,000 as a potential signing bonus.

And they took first meetings, but we didn't move forward with offers in any one.

And obviously, the way that gets framed to the press is, oh, these are offers that are going out when there is a giant distinction from one of our employees sending a message to one of their employees versus actually sending out a legal offer letter.

That one is false.

I obviously can't speak too much to other acquisition kind of stuff, so I'll reserve any comments on future acquisition questions, though.

Would you sell for $30 billion?

No, I wouldn't.

I mean, ultimately, we've gotten a lot of acquisition interest and we could walk away with like I could walk away with billions of dollars in cash.

The thing is, that's just not what motivates me.

Like, I'm very motivated by how do we solve this incredibly important problem in the world of how humans fit into the economy?

I feel like we have the opportunity to build a legendary company and creating this new category of work.

And our probability of executing on that vision wouldn't be as high if we weren't an independent company.

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