Jonathan Stull

COO @joinhandshake! Helping every student build a great career - no matter where they come from or who they know. Loving @emilychangtv and our four crazy kids.

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

This @joinHandshake event with @OpenAI was so energizing.

Not surprisingly, when you give young people powerful tools, their creativity and ambition run wild. The @UCBerkeley students were incredible.

With AI, your career will be more about showing than telling. Build something real, not just a pretty resume. This is just the start.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

Students are learning to build with Codex, and building to learn.

Here’s what @UCBerkeley students built at the Codex Creator Challenge with @joinHandshake.

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

@XHabib @mcuban Not a fixed supply of businesses. Tools making it easier for far more people to start or scale small companies, even 1-peeson companies. Expect the average headcount per company to go down a lot, but have a lot more businesses.

[Emily Chang @emilychangtv]

The Circuit is back for another season! Check out what’s coming here:

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

"We think that with AI we can replace all of our Jr developers in our company"

AWS CEO Matt Garman: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard"

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

https://t.co/Hn03TUUfXG

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

Three months ago, the tech hivemind said no entry-level candidate would ever be hired again. The most AI-pilled, agile, ambitious generation in the workforce would immediately be replaced by agents.

Instead, just like every technological transformation in history, young talent has proven more resilient than ever. And the most AI-forward companies are leaning in and reaping the benefits. From the WSJ...

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

Spot on. Coaching little league baseball is magical. But beyond baseball, just find ways to get involved deeply in your community, particularly helping kids. Building a sense of place and contributing to its future enriches the soul like little else.

Particularly relevant within the tech debate about the AI boom / lottery and how it can distort perceptions of success. There's always someone who will make more $$ or have built more status in some way...but nobody can replicate the bonds you built with the parents and other coaches and particularly the kids across the community. That season and that team is forever unique.

Find a place. Invest in it. Commit to it. You won't be disappointed, even if you lose in the semi-finals. (Sorry we couldn't bring it home, Jumbo Shrimp!)

[David Klein @CoachDavidKlein]

There is something truly magical about a Little League season that is really hard to put into words.

You get handed a group of kids from your town. Different skill levels. Different levels of interest. Some of them barely know each other. Some of them are only there because their parents made them show up.

And then over the course of 3 months something just happens.

They start to figure each other out. They start to care. They show up for each other in ways you never expected. And by the end of the season that group of strangers becomes a community.

That is the magic of rec league and Little League baseball. It is your town. Your kids. Your neighbors. Kids who pass each other in the hallways at school, whose parents grab coffee at the same place on Saturday mornings, coaches who have been coaching against each other for years.

There is a shared history and a shared community that just makes everything feel different.

And here is what I really believe. A really well run, well orchestrated Little League or rec league season, even one that does not end in a championship, can be one of the most magical experiences a kid has in youth sports.
It is just a different animal than travel ball. Not better or worse in every way.

But when it comes to community, to meaning, to that feeling at the very end of the season….

It is really hard to beat!

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

You will know that the AI labs believe in ASI when they disband their newly formed consulting (sorry “forward deployed engineering”) groups. As long as people are required to figure out how AI is useful & do organizational change & systems integration, jobs seem to be pretty safe

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

The third point is very important and often overlooked!

Short-term tech layoffs are being interpreted as ‘AI = mass long-term unemployment.’ They are more likely part of a shift where big businesses get smaller and we see a huge explosion in small or solo businesses.

New business formation has been ~50% above pre-pandemic baseline for 4+ years running. Feb and Mar 2026 were a further 10% up YoY.

The SBA is now seeing 440K solopreneur applications/month. 84% of US businesses operate with zero employees.

More small businesses, more productivity per firm, more growth.

[John Collison @collision]

We've been thinking a lot at Stripe about the Coasean lens on AI:

- The obvious near-term effect is reduced transaction costs within companies: shared context, systems of record, aligned incentives etc.
- But inter-company transaction costs also reduce sharply: agents are great at discovery, make it trivially easy to integrate; make contracting much more straightforward; agent-to-agent commerce.
- On net, we think second effect bigger in medium term: fewer people per firm, more output per firm, just more firms, and more coordination happening through market-like mechanisms

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

"A decade ago, AI was supposed to replace radiologists. Today, radiologists make more than $500,000 per year, and their employment continues to grow, see chart below. Reading scans is a task, not a job, and when the task gets cheaper, demand for the job grows."

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

@Benioff is right. The 2025 drop was bc employers needed to pause and figure it all out.

A year on, @joinHandshake is seeing 2x more jobs, 3x more internships with AI skills.

AI is helping drive more economic growth than ever. To win, you need most AI pilled generation ever.

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

I’m locked on, @DavidSacks! We’re hiring 1,000 new grads & interns right now to ride the AI exponential. You are right they said AI would kill entry-level jobs. Meanwhile these grads & interns are building it — powering Agentforce & Headless360 at Salesforce. 🚀 New grads: Drop your resume to @salesforcejobs or [email protected]
#FutureForce #AI

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Will keep saying this, but software jobs aren’t going away. Agents are the single biggest form of leverage for anyone technical in history. Probably has never been a better time to be technical in terms of being able to accomplish something solo, in a team, or company.

We think that most of the world’s software has already been built and that agents will just reduce work from an existing pie. In fact, we are about to experience 100X more software than before.

Think about how many apps you regularly use that need to get better. How many legacy on prem systems that have to get replatformed for the cloud. How many SMBs never could hire developers. How many security issues are about to be uncovered and need to get patched. How many IT organizations are about to bring automation to workflows they never could have automated. How much data is about to processed and connected in most organizations. This is all what the agents will be working on.

And every one of those agents will need a person to kick them off, manage their work, orchestrate them, and get their output into a workable and useful form. That person will generally need to be technical (or become technical quickly), and this will create a huge amount of opportunity for anyone up to the task.

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

Great article by @rachelsupark that mirrors what we see but from an investor lens. AI is changing jobs but isn’t and won’t replace the vast majority of jobs 1:1. Much much bigger pie for software and for society.

[Rachel Park @rachelsupark]

https://t.co/cIJ42L8wxQ

[Jeff Richards @jrichlive]

"It just so happens this big bold bet is in the largest market ever, with explosive tailwinds behind us."

@GarrettLord is one of the most inspiring founders we've ever worked with. @joinHandshake AI has grown from an idea in late '24 to over $1 billion in revenue this year. We discuss this and more on the @notablecap pod...

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

Since half the folks I read here, and folks up to Dario as well, are so down, maybe this is worth saying: the best evidence and theory is that AI will be very consequential but also very positive for human wealth, health, and flourishing. 1/3

[Aaron Francis @aarondfrancis]

Imagine winning this hard. Impossible

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Wow. Incredible amount of SOTA training data now just available to China thanks to @mercor_ai leak. Every major lab. Billions and billions of value and a major national security issue.

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

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.

https://t.co/PUXJi9leHK

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

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.

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

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.

[Jonathan Stull @jonstull]

https://t.co/LHZq2PHjik

💸 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