The 100-person lab that became Anthropic and Google’s secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)

Edwin Chen is the founder and CEO of Surge AI, the company that teaches AI what’s good vs. what’s bad, powering frontier labs with elite data, environments, and evaluations. Surge surpassed $1 billion in revenue with under 100 employees last year, completely bootstrapped—the fastest company in history to reach this milestone. Before founding Surge, Edwin was a research scientist at Google, Facebook, and Twitter and studied mathematics, computer science, and linguistics at MIT. *We discuss:* 1. How Surge reached over $1 billion in revenue with fewer than 100 people by obsessing over quality 2. The story behind how Claude Code…