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Will de Lucy and the trouble with a perfect CV
A bond trader with a 2:2 from Leeds became a co-founder of AmplifyME. His working proposition: give people a market to navigate, and they may tell you more than an application ever could.
EDI gives talent something to show.
A job application asks for experience. Experience asks for a first chance. Everything D&I puts an employer’s business problem in the middle - and lets students get to work.
AmplifyME turns the trading floor into a job audition
The London company lets students try finance before applying for it. Banks get something useful in return: a record of how a would-be hire actually performs.
Handshake
Handshake is a San Francisco company that began as the career network for Gen Z, connecting tens of millions of students and recent grads with employers and university career centers. Built by three Michigan Tech computer science students to give kids from non-elite schools a fair shot at good jobs, it grew into the dominant early-career recruiting platform. In January 2025 it launched Handshake AI, turning its network of students, PhDs and domain experts into a human data-labeling marketplace that supplies high-quality training data to frontier AI labs - a pivot that has grown into a roughly $1B annualized gross revenue business.