Brendan Foody is the 22-year-old co-founder and CEO of Mercor, the AI talent and data company that became a $10 billion decacorn in under two years. A Georgetown dropout and former Thiel Fellow from Menlo Park, California, Foody co-founded Mercor with high school debate teammates Adarsh Hiremath and Surya Midha at a São Paulo hackathon in early 2023. Mercor connects AI labs — including OpenAI, Meta, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic — with domain experts (scientists, doctors, lawyers, bankers) who train frontier AI models through human feedback, growing from $1M to $500M in annual run rate within 17 months and making Foody one of the world's youngest self-made billionaires.
Brian David Gilbert is a writer, actor, musician, and video producer who turned a fixation on the 337 books inside Skyrim into a media career. Best known as the host of Polygon's Unraveled and as the deeply earnest fact checker on Dropout's Um, Actually, he now runs an independent YouTube channel where horror, comedy, and musical theater keep colliding on purpose.
Neil Tewari is the 24-year-old co-founder and CEO of Conversion (conversion.ai), an AI-native B2B marketing automation platform based in San Francisco. A UC Berkeley dropout at 19, he and co-founder James Jiao built Conversion from their dorm room into a company serving 4,000+ businesses with nearly $10M ARR and $30M in total funding, including a $28M Series A led by Abstract Ventures announced in 2025.
Henrique Dubugras is the Brazilian co-founder of Brex, the corporate card and spend management company he built from a Y Combinator pivot at age 21 into a $12.3B peak-valuation fintech unicorn - ultimately acquired by Capital One for $5.15 billion in 2026. He taught himself to code at 12 to avoid paying for a Korean MMO, sold his first payments company (Pagar.me) at 20 while processing $1.5B annually, dropped out of Stanford after 8 months, and found his billion-dollar idea by simply failing to get a credit card for his own startup. Now operating in stealth, he has said he found his 'calling' again.