Silicon Valley’s new success is a $2-bn job platform with an Indian origin story

Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha were college students when they first created their artificial intelligence (AI) interviewer. Initially, they were using the AI interview as a screening tool for engineers in India and matching those engineers with US startup jobs. Now, their AI interview has screened around half a million candidates, and their AI job marketplace, Mercor, is valued at $2 billion.

Mercor now works predominantly with some of the largest AI labs and tech companies in the world, including OpenAI and Meta, to screen talent…