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Today, we power 25 million job seekers, 1 million+ employers, and 1,600 educational institutions.\nIn 2025, we started Handshake AI and built the fastest-growing AI data business in history. We work directly with frontier AI lab researchers to create evaluations, publish benchmarks, and push the boundary of data. We’ve grown from $0 to ~$1B run rate and pay ~$60M to over 30K individuals every month.\nWhy join Handshake now:\nShape how every career evolves in the AI economy, at global scale, with impact your friends, family and peers can see and feel\n\nPartner hand-in-hand with world-class AI labs, Fortune 500 partners and the world’s top educational institutions\n\nWork together with engineers, scientists, operators, and more from Palantir, Meta, Scale AI, and former YC founders\n\nBuild a massive, fast-growing business with billions in revenue\n\nAbout Handshake AI\nHuman data is the core infrastructure to AI advancement. 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