Harvard College Dropout's AI-Recruitment Startup Mercor Receives $2 Billion Valuation

When Adarsh S. Hiremath dropped out of Harvard in his sophomore year to work on his startup Mercor — an artificial intelligence-powered hiring platform — he had not raised any money for his project. “I wouldn’t say there was some specific logical thing that gave me the confidence to pursue Mercor,” he said. “It was more so just...