{"id":980377,"date":"2025-12-15T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980377"},"modified":"2025-12-15T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T06:30:44","slug":"microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-my-mother-wanted-me-to-leave-school-at-16-and-become-a-carpenter-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/15\/microsoft-ai-ceo-mustafa-suleyman-my-mother-wanted-me-to-leave-school-at-16-and-become-a-carpenter-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: My mother wanted me to leave school at 16 and become a carpenter or\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;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 &#8217;90s with a Syrian taxi driver father and nurse mother who &#8220;didn&#8217;t super value education.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My parents always thought I should go get a trade \u2014 my mum would often say to me, You should be a carpenter or electrician, leave school at 16,&#8221; Suleyman told Bloomberg in an interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;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 &#8217;90s with a Syrian taxi driver father and nurse mother who &#8220;didn&#8217;t super value education.&#8221; &#8220;My parents always thought I should go get a trade \u2014 my mum would often say to me, You should be a carpenter or electrician, leave school at 16,&#8221; Suleyman told Bloomberg in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}