TLDR:
– In 2002, Yann LeCun, a French computer scientist and chief AI scientist at Facebook’s Meta, was offered a director position at Google, but he turned it down.
– LeCun declined the offer for four reasons: Google was relatively unknown at the time, the salary was too low, he didn’t want to uproot his teenage sons and move to Silicon Valley, and Google wasn’t conducting the type of research that interested him.
Yann LeCun, the chief AI scientist at Meta (formerly Facebook), revealed in a tweet that he turned down a director position at Google back in 2002. LeCun explained that he declined the offer for several reasons, including the fact that Google was still relatively unknown at the time, the salary was too low, he didn’t want to uproot his teenage sons and move to California, and Google wasn’t conducting the type of research that interested him. LeCun’s decision to decline the Google job offer ultimately led him to a successful career at Meta, where he has been since 2013.