# Mercor CEO Brendan Foody puts a number-shaped hole in the AI agent story

> Source: <https://runtimewire.com/article/mercor-brendan-foody-ai-agent-token-spend-salaries>
> Published: 2026-06-05 02:34:46+00:00

Brendan Foody (@BrendanFoody), founder and CEO of Mercor (@mercor ai), has turned a familiar AI operating thesis into a concrete test case: in a post on X linking to a new 20VC interview, Mercor is framed as spending more on AI agent tokens than on human salaries. https://youtu.be/CkAmq2gYtA4 Brendan Foody on X 20VC episode on YouTube https://youtu.be/CkAmq2gYtA4 That claim is striking because Mercor is not being pitched as an ordinary software company. The 20VC with Harry Stebbings episode d...