Three 22-year-old friends, including Indian-Americans, have become the world's youngest self-made billionaires after their AI recruiting startup Mercor raised $350 million. The school friends surpassed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who first appeared on Forbes' billionaire list at 23 in 2008, to become the youngest billionaires. The two Indian-American friends are Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha.

Hiremath and Midha, along with Brendan Foody, turned Mercor into a $10-billion juggernaut, each holding roughly 22% of the stake in the company and vaulting past every previous record for youth-made wealth.

The Indian-Americans, Hiremath and Midha, were raised in the San Jose, California area, and both attended Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, an all-boys high school. It was at Bellarmine

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