Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: My mother wanted me to leave school at 16 and become a carpenter or…
Microsoft’s AI chief Mustafa Suleyman has revealed his working-class roots shaped his approach to technology, with his mother once urging him to abandon education for a trade career. In a candid interview with Bloomberg, the 39-year-old executive opened up about growing up in north London during the 1980s and ’90s with a Syrian taxi driver father and nurse mother who “didn’t super value education.”
“My parents always thought I should go get a trade — my mum would often say to me, You should be a carpenter or electrician, leave school at 16,” Suleyman told Bloomberg in an interview.
