Co-founder of DeepMind in 2010, alongside Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg. Later co-founded Inflection AI. When he left that firm, he took an entire engineering team with him to Microsoft. The rump startup relied on a corporate dowry in the form of a licensing deal with the talent-grabbing tech giant, limiting its prospects. Suleyman also serves as a director of The Economist's parent company.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.