Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, November 3rd. Today on Forbes, the world's youngest

self-made billionaires are a trio of 22-year-old AI founders. Merckor, a recruiting startup that

helps Silicon Valley's biggest AI labs to train their models, has just minted the

world's youngest self-made billionaires, the company's three 22-year-old founders, a trio

of Bay Area High School friends who competed together on their debate team.

Earlier this week, the San Francisco startup announced a $350 million funding round, led by Felisi's Ventures,

with participation from other bigwigs, benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robin Hood,

valuing the company at $10 billion. The new infusion of cash makes CEO Brendan Fudi,

CTO, Adarsh Hiramath, and board chairman Surya Mita, the newest

billionaires of the AI boom, each with a roughly 22% stake in the company, Forbes estimates.

Foodie told Forbes, quote, it's definitely crazy. It feels very surreal, obviously beyond our wildest imaginations,

insofar as anything that we could have anticipated two years ago.

Even in youth-obsessed Silicon Valley, where neophyte founders have been lionized for decades,

Merckor is particularly well known for the young age of its leaders.

All three founders are Teal Fellows,

members of conservative billionaire investor Peter Teal's program, to dole out $100,000

grants every year to young people in exchange for foregoing college. They've become the poster

children of the AI era's 20-something entrepreneurs. Here,ath, who spent two years at Harvard before dropping out after sophomore year, said,

quote, the thing that's crazy for me is, if I weren't working on Mercor, I would have just graduated

college a couple months ago. My life did such a 180 in such a short period of time.

The Merckor founder's new status puts them at the top of the list of young tech entrepreneurs whose personal fortunes have recently hit the billion dollar mark.

They supplant polymarket CEO Shane Coplin as the world's youngest self-made billionaires.

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