Adarsh Hiremath — Biografia de Criança Prodígio

Biografia

What Mercor sells

Mercor recruits skilled professionals, many of them holders of doctorates, law degrees or Wall Street backgrounds, and pays them to train artificial intelligence models for companies including OpenAI and Meta. The San Francisco Standard reported in November 2025 that contractors on the platform earn up to $200 an hour teaching chatbots to behave like people.

The economics behind the valuation are unusual for a company this young. The Standard put Mercor at a $500 million annualised revenue run rate as of September 2025, paying contractors roughly $1.5 million a day, and profitable. Felicis Ventures led a $350 million Series C that set the $10 billion price.

Three founders, one debate team

Hiremath met his co-founders, Brendan Foody and Surya Midha, through their high-school debate team in San Jose. All three are children of software engineers. Hiremath went to Harvard; Foody and Midha went to Georgetown. In 2023 all three dropped out.

The company they built did not start where it ended up. Mercor began by connecting engineers in India with American firms looking for freelance coding talent, then pivoted to supplying human expertise for AI training when that market appeared. The pivot is the commercial decision that produced the valuation.

What being a paper billionaire means

Forbes made the ranking explicit on 30 October 2025: at 22, the three founders were the youngest self-made billionaires in the world. Hiremath's stake is reported at about 22% of the company, which at a $10 billion valuation is the arithmetic behind the headline.

It is worth being precise about what that is. The wealth is a stake in a private company valued by its most recent funding round, not cash. Private valuations move both ways, and the figure describes a moment in October 2025 rather than a bank balance.

Where Adarsh Hiremath is now

He is Mercor's chief technology officer, the technical half of a founding team whose chief executive is Foody and whose board chairman is Midha. Forbes also records him as a Thiel Fellow, the programme that funds young people to leave university for their own projects, which fits the 2023 drop-out.

No later change of role, funding round or valuation appears in the sources used here. Anyone checking this page in a year should assume the valuation figure has moved.

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What is documented and what is not

Documented: Mercor's $10 billion valuation after a $350 million Series C led by Felicis; Hiremath's role as chief technology officer and his roughly 22% stake; the Forbes ranking of the three founders as the world's youngest self-made billionaires at 22; the San Jose debate-team origin; Harvard; and the 2023 drop-out.

Not documented here: his date of birth, his parents' names, his personal holdings outside Mercor, and any statement from him in his own words. The birth year on this page is derived from his reported age of 22 in late 2025.

Linha do Tempo de Conquistas

Adarsh Hiremath — every milestone on this page, placed by age.

2023

Abandona Harvard; ele e os seus cofundadAbandona Harvard; ele e os seus cofundadores iniciam o negócio que se torna a Mercor

2025

Mercor atinge uma taxa de receita anualiMercor atinge uma taxa de receita anualizada de 500 milhões de dólares até setembro, segundo o San Francisco Standard

2025

A Forbes nomeia os três fundadores de 22A Forbes nomeia os três fundadores de 22 anos os bilionários self-made mais jovens do mundo (30 de outubro)

2025

O San Francisco Standard detalha o mercaO San Francisco Standard detalha o mercado de treino de IA por trás da avaliação (7 de novembro)

Comparação Histórica

Pessoa	País	Marco	Idade / Dado
Elisabeth Anisimow	Estados Unidos	Pinturas vivas vendidas aos 11 anos por 2.500-5.000$ cada	11 anos
Carmel Bechler	Israel	Jovem Fotógrafo de Vida Selvagem do Ano 2023	16 anos
Andrea Dominizi	Itália	Um escaravelho no canto do quadro, maquinaria de exploração florestal atrás, e uma loba	17 anos
Adarsh Hiremath	Estados Unidos	Cofundador da Mercor; um dos bilionários self-made mais jovens do mundo	20 anos
Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas	Alemanha	Vencedor do Jovem Fotógrafo de Vida Selvagem do Ano 2024	—

What is documented — and what is not

✓ Documented

Named by Forbes among the world's three youngest self-made billionaires at 22 (30 October 2025)
Chief technology officer of Mercor, holding about 22% of the company
Mercor valued at $10 billion after a $350m Series C led by Felicis Ventures
Met his co-founders on a San Jose high-school debate team; dropped out of Harvard in 2023

? Unverified, disputed or wrong

Date of birth is not published; the birth year here is an estimate
The billionaire status rests on a private valuation that can move in either direction
No direct quotations from Hiremath appear in the sources used here

Questions people ask about Adarsh Hiremath

How old is Adarsh Hiremath?

Forbes reported him as 22 in October 2025, which puts his birth year at about 2003. No date of birth appears in these sources.

What does Mercor do?

It recruits skilled professionals to train AI models for companies including OpenAI and Meta, paying contractors up to $200 an hour.

What is Adarsh Hiremath's net worth?

Forbes ranked him among the world's youngest self-made billionaires at 22, based on a roughly 22% stake in a company valued at $10 billion. That is a private stake, not cash.