Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth — Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)

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Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord (Handshake CEO)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Garrett Lord is co-founder and CEO of Handshake, which started as a career network for college students and new grads but recently discovered something extraordinary: they were sitting on the world’s largest network of academic experts—exactly what frontier AI labs desperately needed. With 500,000 PhDs and 3 million…

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