> Pud-like AI startup featured on 60 Minutes tonight: Get paid Net 90 to teach the AI models

“I knew I wanted to drop out before finals my sophomore year,” he told Fortune. “I just didn’t go to finals.”

By then, Foody had already found something he couldn’t learn in a lecture hall. A few months earlier, at a hackathon in São Paulo, he and his co-founders had stumbled onto a simple but powerful model: match companies with skilled engineers abroad, handle the logistics, and take a small cut of each deal. :pud: Their first client agreed to pay $500 a week for a developer; Mercor paid the engineer roughly 70% and kept the rest as a service fee.