The HOW of building iconic companies.
Founders who’ve done it at the highest level on recruiting, culture, intensity, and the inner game of the job. With Nakul Mandan.
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Garrett Lord. Handshake.
Garrett Lord, co-founder and CEO of Handshake, took Handshake AI from zero to $1 billion in gross revenue in about 15 months - effectively refounding his $3.5 billion career network around it. He walks through incubating the new business inside a profitable one, moving his strongest people over, holding 'Olympic Pace' as around 100 people left, and what the bear case on human data misses.
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