Garrett Lord: belief

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…So, let me ask you about this. There's this tension, I imagine, people might feel between all these students training models to become smarter, and smarter, and smarter, and then there's that they will have harder time potentially finding jobs if models are so smart that people at entry level aren't being hired as much. How do you think about just that tension? Do you think this is a real problem or not, or do you think this goes- I'm probably in the camp of like GDP growth over universal basic income. I very much believe that this is going to improve and accelerate every human's ability to create an impact in the economy in the world, and that we're hearing from, there's like a million companies that use Handshake. 100% of the Fortune 500 uses Handshake, so we basically power the vast majority of how young people find jobs, and a lot of people are hyperbolic at saying that all young people won't have jobs, and that's not what we're hearing from our employers. What we're hearing is pick social media marketing, before you needed somebody that could do Photoshop, and take pictures, and create the videos. Then you needed somebody that understood marketing analytics platforms to track your posting on different social media forms. It's like now one person, one young, talented, AI native, Iron Man suit enabled young person can get on and they can build their own videos, produce their own creative assets, post across multiple social media platforms, run all of their own analytics. They don't need a data science degree to be able to do that. Or take an intern in our company, he had his first PR up I think the afternoon he started. You were a PM, you realize how challenging that would've been historically to get your dev environment set up and figure out where to add value. You just took a bug and squashed it. And so, I'm really a believer this is just enabling human beings to be even more productive and create more impact. And yeah, of course, hundreds of millions of jobs, the jobs will evolve. People will become displaced, they'll have to upscale and rescale, and I think Handshake has a huge role to play in helping knowledge workers evolve. This has come up a couple of times this point that I think is really good, that younger people coming out of school are actually going to be much more likely to be successful because they're growing up with these tools, and are much more native to all these advanced tools and so they just come in as beasts just doing so much more.…

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