Amazon’s $2 Billion Mistake: The AI Industry’s Real Bottleneck Isn’t ComputeโIt’s Human Data
Amazon let Mechanical Turk die while Mercor quietly built a $2B business supplying the human data that AI actually craves. The real bottleneck in the AI era isn’t Nvidia chipsโit’s skilled people. Here’s how a trillion-dollar giant left billions on the table for a startup that understood the market better.