Being in the C-suite is a high-pressure job with long hours, board responsibilities, and intense scrutiny. But what is it like to be a top executive when you’re off the clock?
Fortune’s series, The Good Life, shows how up-and-coming leaders spend their time and money outside of work.
Today, we meet Jonathan Siddharth, co founder and CEO of AI company Turing.
Siddharth helms a $2.2 billion business building large language models (LLMs) for industry powerhouses like OpenAI. But his passion for technology predates his founding of the unicorn company in 2018; as a teenager, he wanted to fuse his passions for AI and Formula 1. So he started a hobby project where he programmed a neural network to drive a car. The entrepreneur says that an early venture helped him eventually get into Stanford University, where he pursued a master’s degree in computer science.
“I have been fascinated by artificial intelligence since high school, when I began tinkering with neural networks before the subject was even taught in class,” Siddharth tells Fortune. “I would raid the library for every book I could carry, captivated by the idea of algorithms inspired by biology.”
