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Garrett Lord

Episode #102

Co-founder & CEO

Handshake

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Garrett Lord (00:00:00): There will never be a time like this. I've never seen anything like it. I doubt I'll ever feel anything like this in business again where there's unlimited demand. How do you make sure that three months from now, six months, you have no regrets? Get on the plane to go talk to a customer, make the late night push, check the data six times over again. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:15): Your company creates new data to continue advancing the intelligence of models. This is a business that you built on top of a business you've already had. Garrett Lord (00:00:24): We're the largest expert network in the world. We have this massive strategic advantage, which is like no customer acquisition costs. The only moat in human data is access to an audience. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:33): You guys come in after the model's trained to tweak the weights based on additional data that you you've created. Garrett Lord (00:00:38): The models have gotten so good that the generalists are no longer needed. What they really need is experts. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:44): There's this tension between all these students training models to become smarter, and then there's that they will have harder time potentially finding jobs. Garrett Lord (00:00:52): That's not what we're hearing from our employers, this is just enabling human beings to be even more productive. You used to put a Google Search on a skill on your resume because you grew up with Google. Being AI native, young people are at a huge advantage. Lenny Rachitsky (00:01:05): Today my guest is Garrett Lord. Garrett is the co-founder and CEO of Handshake, which is one of the most interesting and incredible AI success stories that you probably haven't heard of. Handshake has been around for over 10 years, they're essentially LinkedIn for college students, it's a place for students to connect with companies to find a job. They are the platform of choice for every single Fortune 500 company. Over 1,500 colleges, o...

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