“Obviously, the stock option package would have ended up stratospheric,” lamented Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun.
In 2002, French computer scientist Yann LeCun was offered a director position at a new tech startup named Google. He passed on the position for a number of reasons, but according to him, had he taken the job, it might have completely changed the way Google goes about research.
LeCun explained on X (formerly Twitter) that Google co-founder Larry Page approached him back in 2002 with the job offer.
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