Brendan Foody

Brendan Foody (00:00:00): The wealthiest companies in the world are willing to spend whatever it takes to improve model capabilities. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:05): We are entering the era of evals. Brendan Foody (00:00:07): We started working with all of the top AI labs. What the labs need is labor marketplace. They actually need extraordinary professionals that can measure model capabilities. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:17): They found this pocket, maybe the biggest business opportunity in history....

The opener starts with biography before advice. That order makes the guest legible as a person before the listener extracts tactics.

Brendan Foody (00:05:45): Thank you so much for having me, Lenny. I'm a huge fan, and so excited to have a conversation. Lenny Rachitsky (00:05:51):...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

I saw you talking about this on the No Priors podcast with Sarah and Elad, and I don't know if it was after this or before this, but Sarah tweeted, "Evals equals your new marketing." What does that mean? What...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Lenny Rachitsky (01:06:37): Brendan, thank you so much for joining me. Brendan Foody (01:06:39): Thank you for having me. Lenny Rachitsky (01:06:41): Bye,...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Lenny Rachitsky (01:05:53): Brendan, this was incredible. I learned so much. I have a billion more questions, but you got shit to do. Two final questions. What should people know about what you're doing and roles you're hiring for? And then how can listeners be useful to you? Brendan Foody (01:06:06): Absolutely. We're hiring a ton across the board on our team. We're hiring strategic project leads on our operations team, software engineers in our engineering team, as well as researchers. And so please go to mercor....

The ending stays curious after the formal conversation is almost done.