The 22-year-old founders of Mercor, a fast-growing AI recruiting startup, have officially become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires, surpassing Mark Zuckerberg, who first appeared on Forbes’ billionaire list at 23 in 2008.

According to Forbes , Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, three high school friends who launched Mercor in San Francisco, US, recently secured $350 million in new funding, valuing their company at $10 billion. The massive valuation helped the trio—Foody as CEO, Hiremath as CTO, and Midha as board chairman—step into billionaire status .

Two of Mercor’s co-founders, Surya Midha and Adarsh Hiremath, are Indian Americans who first met at Bellarmine College Preparatory, an all-boys school in San Jose, California. Both were standout members of the s

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