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Garrett Lord
Co-Founder & CEO · Handshake
Garrett Lord co-founded Handshake in 2014 as a Michigan Tech student and serves as CEO of the early-career recruiting network. In 2025 he led an expansion into Handshake AI, a data-labeling and human-expertise unit supplying frontier AI labs.
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Garrett Lord co-founded Handshake in 2014 as a Michigan Tech student and serves as CEO of the early-career recruiting network. In 2025 he led an expansion into Handshake AI, a data-labeling and human-expertise unit supplying frontier AI labs.
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Garrett Lord is Co-Founder & CEO at Handshake.
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