How did this AI scientist end up having a salary of $1.9 million?

A dive into the singular life of Ilya Sutskever

In 2015, Ilya Sutskever was a young computer scientist that was specializing in Deep Learning.

That year, Sam Altman, President of Y Combinator (the biggest startup accelerator in the world) emailed him:

Hey, let’s get dinner with some cool people.

Ilya ended up having dinner with Greg Brockman (co-founder of Stripe), Elon Musk, and other influential personalities…