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Garrett Lord went all in on Handshake AI — now it’s at nearly $1B
15 minutes Posted Apr 23, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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How did a career platform become a nearly $1B AI business? In this episode of Notable Perspectives, Jeff Richards sits down with Garrett Lord, the co-founder and CEO of Handshake — the career network connecting 22 million young professionals to every Fortune 500 company and powering 92% of higher education in America. Garrett left Palantir with a contrarian conviction borrowed from Peter Thiel: that access to opportunity shouldn't depend on which school you attended or who your parents knew. ...