Keep pulling the thread on Garrett Lord & Mamoon Hamid.
Handshake AI is currently working with six of the major frontier AI labs.
Handshake's self-service business for small businesses is currently adding $1 million in revenue per week.
Handshake's AI division recently turned down a $20 million project due to being at capacity.
Handshake made a strategic decision to stop providing its expert user data to intermediary data companies and instead work directly with AI research labs.
Handshake is used by 1,600 universities in the United States, which represents 92% of the top 500 universities in the country.
Handshake's user base of 18 million people includes 500,000 PhDs and 3 million master's students.
One million companies, including 100% of the Fortune 500, use the Handshake network to recruit.
Handshake is expanding its operations into France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Garrett Lord predicts that Handshake's self-service business for small businesses has the potential to become a $400-500 million revenue line.
Handshake's AI division is currently hiring 12 new employees per week and aims to increase that rate to 20 per week.
An engineer at Handshake completed a pull request on the company's mobile codebase in 1.5 days using the AI coding tool Cursor, a task that would typically take much longer.
Mamoon Hamid states that a Series A company today can achieve with 20 engineers what would have required 80 engineers two to three years ago, due to AI-powered developer tools.