Three 22-year-old entrepreneurs behind the fast-growing AI recruitment startup Mercor have become the world’s youngest self-made billionaires — surpassing Mark Zuckerberg, who joined Forbes’ billionaire list at age 23 in 2008. According to Forbes, Brendan Foody, Adarsh Hiremath, and Surya Midha, who founded Mercor in San Francisco , recently raised $350 million in new funding, valuing their company at $10 billion. The latest investment has propelled the trio—Foody as CEO, Hiremath as CTO, and Midha as board chairman—into billionaire status.

School friends turned entrepreneurs

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

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