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Brendan Foody

Today, my guest is Brendan Foody, CEO and co-founder of Merkor.

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Peak Performance3 steps

Build-With-The-Tools Assessment

Don't test people on doing work without AI — hand them the tools and score what they can build in an hour

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Strategy3 steps

Elastic-Demand Career Bet

Invest in domains where making people 10x more productive increases demand rather than reducing it

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Leadership3 steps

Patient-Then-Floor-It Hiring

Be obsessively patient hiring the founding team; step on the gas the moment demand exceeds what you can handle

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Entrepreneurship4 steps

Pull-Based Product-Market Fit

Be stubborn on your thesis but open on its form — chase the customer who is surprisingly easy to sell, not the one you must force

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Innovation3 steps

RLAIF Reward Design

Have an expert define success criteria and a rubric once, then let AI reinforce the capability — more scalable than labeling examples

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Leadership3 steps

Three Tenets: Can-Do, High Standards, Intensity

The three cultural tenets Foody credits for the fastest revenue ascent in history

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Innovation3 steps

Value-Chain Eval

Before applying AI to your business, build a systematic test that measures how well it automates your core value chain

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