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Surya Midha

Co-founder & Chairman of the Board (COO until Oct 2025) · Mercor

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Mercor co-founder who ran operations as COO through the pivot into expert data, then stepped back to board chairman in October 2025. Still a ~22% owner and board chair, but no longer runs day-to-day operations.

high confidenceAt Mercor since 2023Updated 2026-09-19

Background

Grew up in San Jose to parents from New Delhi. Salutatorian at Bellarmine College Prep, where he and his partner were the first team to win all three national policy-debate tournaments. Studied international relations, economics and maths at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service (debate coach; intern at Brookings under Eswar Prasad) before dropping out as a Thiel Fellow in 2024.

What they run now

Board-level governance and fundraising; not operating day-to-day since October 2025. What he does full-time now is not publicly stated.

Career

  1. 2025-10 – presentChairman of the Board, Mercor
  2. 2023 – 2025-10Co-founder & COO, Mercor
  3. —Intern (with Eswar Prasad), Brookings Institution
  4. —Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service — dropped out; Thiel Fellow (March 2024)
  5. 2017-2021Bellarmine College Preparatory — salutatorian

Recent posts

34 posts archived · most engaged first, then the latest

surya@suryamidha·
roulette is basically free money if you know how to play properly. if it’s red a bunch of times in a row you know it has to be black next. also it’s always black.
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Connections

Who they amplify

Accounts whose posts Surya has reposted recently: Etched, Jonathan Jacobi, Will DePue, Alexandra Debow.

Why it matters here

Little direct relevance to a taste-data specialist now that he is off the operating side; he matters as a board vote on M&A and partnerships.

How to reach

Lists a public contact on his personal site. Not a priority contact for Julian.

What we could not establish
  • What he is doing full-time since stepping back (new venture? investing?).
  • No recent public statements found on data/labs.

Sources

  1. suryamidha.com
  2. Surya Midha on X: transitioning to chairman (Oct 2025)
  3. Forbes: Mercor's founders grapple with employee fraud and North Korean infiltration (2026-04-15)
  4. Forbes: Mercor in talks to raise $500M at $20B (2026-07-09)
  5. Wikipedia: Mercor
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