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Meet the 22-Year-Old Indian-Origin Founders Who Just Became the World’s Youngest Billionaires

| Nov 03, 2025, 04:00:27 PM | TOI.in
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Forget apps, crypto, or IPOs, the newest billionaires in the world got there by selling human intelligence to artificial intelligence. Two Indian-origin 22-year-olds are now worth over $2 billion each after their AI workforce platform Mercor hit a $10 billion valuation. They beat Zuckerberg’s age record, built a 500M revenue engine in under two years, and now power the most powerful AI labs on the planet. The story begins in a school debate club in San Jose, and ends with Silicon Valley’s fastest-ever billionaire creation. This is not just a success story. It’s a sign: the next tech gold rush is not AI tools, it’s the people training the machines.

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