Jonathan Stull

Proud day at @joinhandshake with our $200m fundraise! bloom.bg/3GHG528 Handshake doubled again this year! ⭐️ Revenue...$100M ARR coming soon 🤝 Headcount...500 worldwide 🚀Valuation…now $3.5B! Because we focus on Gen Z's professional future, not their past... (1/5)

Students: build something real in the Codex Creator Challenge, powered by @joinHandshake Try new tools. Have fun. Break things. Repeat. $10K in OpenAI API credits in prizes. joinhandshake.com/students/codex…

The link to jobs and employment is crucial. We're connecting the dots across industries with partners like @LOrealUSA, @GEICO, @ZSAssociates and KPFF, who are helping judge the challenge and committed to hiring people with these skills.

joinhandshake.com/students/codex… 💸 Students get $100 in Codex credits to start building 🏆 Virtual hackathon where students submit projects, get exposure to employers, and win prizes ⚡️ Tutorials, office hours, and a dedicated community for support

In the face of doom and gloom about AI job displacement, I'm excited for @joinHandshake to be doing more. Today, we're working with @OpenAI on the Codex Creator Challenge, to help anyone learn to build with AI and show those skills to employers from every industry and job role.

@Noahpinion @besttrousers @LettieriDC @TheArgumentMag This is a huge huge part of it. Employers we talk with are hiring far less because of uncertainty. On every front. Not just on the scale of people needed but the exact skills and roles needed.

Everyone talks about AI replacement, but no one talks about AI uncertainty. If you don't know whether you'll need workers or what you'll need them for, you hold off on hiring, even if you ultimately end up needing them. If tech progress continues rapidly, the hiring pause due to uncertainty can last a long long time, even without mass human replacement.

I have a new piece in @TheArgumentMag. We haven't (yet?) seen AI affect the labor market by increasing number of people who are unemployed - but there's reason to believe it's contributing to a stagnant labor market by making firms less willing to hire. theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder-i…

There is a massive advantage to hiring young people, and @Shopify was the first company to figure it out, says Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz. "Shopify's Head of Engineering @fnthawar told me that he saw something interesting years back. Shopify was so early to AI. They got Copilot licenses for everyone, with no cost limit. But they didn't see many teams using it." "But there was this one team that was using it a lot more. There was an intern on the team. They onboarded the intern and gave the intern his two-week task and the intern was done in a day. And they're like, 'How did you do that?' He's like, 'Oh well I just used AI? What's next?'" "And suddenly the people on the team felt stupid, right? So they started to learn from the intern and use AI." "The next thing Farhan did was hire an intern for every single Shopify team. This is why Shopify had a thousand interns."

Very excited to welcome @cgnorthcutt and the team to @joinHandshake!

.@alexisohanian opens up about why he quit Reddit, missed the IPO and how Serena Williams validated his decision. "Thank God" I have her in my life, he tells @emilychangtv "Serena clocked it real quick." Watch The Circuit bloom.bg/43UwKlo

I got to test-drive Spectacles with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel. Plus a walk down the Venice boardwalk through the Blue House and into his vision for the future… The Season 4 premiere of The Circuit is here!

Some of the latest hits from @bbgoriginals. So grateful to be part of this team🔥 @jasonkellynews @AROD @flacqua @haslindatv @nikolajcw @FryRsquared

So proud of @emilychangtv for her dogged work on this story over the last 9 months. Must read.

Zero to $50M in 4 months. $100M+ in 12 months. That's the story of how @JoinHandshake discovered they were sitting on AI's most valuable resource: 20 million students and experts. For a decade, @GarrettLord built a career network for students and PhDs. A great business, growing well. Then AI happened. Last Christmas, Garrett realized his network of 500,000 PhDs and 3 million master's is exactly what frontier AI labs desperately needed to train their models. He flew around the country during the holidays, talked to lab leaders, and launched a new business inside his existing company. Eight months in, they now work with all 7 major frontier AI labs and have become one of the fastest-growing businesses in Silicon Valley history. In our conversation, Garrett shares: 🔸 How Handshake found this opportunity 🔸 Why AI models need human experts (e.g. physics PhDs) to improve 🔸 What this “data labeling” actually involves 🔸 Inside the actual work: what a biology PhD does for 8 hours that makes GPT-5 smarter 🔸 The playbook for building a startup inside a startup: separate teams, separate offices, separate everything 🔸 Why the shift from “generalist” to “expert” data labeling created a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity 🔸 Why AI won’t eliminate entry-level jobs—it’s creating “Iron Man suits” that make junior employees 10x more productive Listen now 👇 • YouTube: youtu.be/0qdR-XwHJ9o • Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4z2Y6F… • Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ins… Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast: 🏆 @coderabbitai — Cut code review time and bugs in half. Instantly: coderabbit.link/lenny 🏆 @orkesio — The enterprise platform for reliable applications and agentic workflows: orkes.io 🏆 @AnthropicAI — The AI for problem solvers and enterprise: claude.ai/lenny

We spent 10 years building a massive trusted network across 1,500+ universities. So when we saw PhDs being underpaid and disrespected—we knew we could build it better. Me + @TurnerNovak on @ThePeelPod

🚀 GPT‑5 is here: deep reasoning + lightning speed. The leap toward AGI just got real. Recap + takeaways in thread.

Great @Bloomberg story about 4 Handshake AI fellows—experts across music, pharmacology, chemistry & physics—who are a part of our MOVE program and using their expertise to shape AI while earning $$ and building a lot of career value. bit.ly/4f5JfPd

@chadTheSage0 @mcuban You did not check the app.

@mcuban Checked the app. Burger King and McDonalds are on there hiring shift managers and team leads.

But I thought AI would take all jobs ?

Excited to announce Handshake AI, and what a day to do it. Every model needs to be trained by true experts, and Handshake's network of 500k PhDs, 3m advance-degree holders and 18m college students and grads fit the bill. youtube.com/watch?v=OS0iVK…

Robots, AI...and a breakup? @emilychangtv has the top three takeaways from #BloombergTech 2025 ⬇️

Your hard hat tour of OpenAI’s Stargate megafactory in Abilene, TX with @sama @ChaseLochmiller and lots of red dirt

It keeps getting better and better. Season 3 is straight 🔥🔥🔥 Looking forward to the weird parts the most. 😉 Don't miss it!!