Palantir alum and founder
Garrett Lord
Co-founder and CEO at Handshake AI
Co-founder and CEO of Handshake. Interned twice at Palantir as a forward deployed engineering intern while studying at Michigan Tech.
Lord studied computer science at Michigan Tech (class of 2014). He spent the summer after his sophomore year as a forward deployed engineering intern at Palantir in Washington, DC, then did a second Palantir internship in New York before his senior year. He started Handshake with classmates Ben Christensen and Scott Ringwelski, and launched it in 2014. In late 2024 he launched Handshake AI, which he calls the refounding of the company.
At Palantir
- Forward Deployed Engineering intern
- 2012 to 2013
- Washington, DC; later New York
Career
- 2012: Palantir, forward deployed engineering intern, Washington, DC
- 2013: Palantir, second internship, New York
- 2014: Co-founded Handshake
- 2024: Launched Handshake AI