[freefaler]

He's not a technical guy, it's not like Ilya or Geohot. So it's not that important in the grand scheme of things...

From wikipedia:

After dropping out of university at 19, Suleyman helped start the Muslim Youth Helpline[6][7] with his university friend Mohammed Mamdani,[5] a telephone counselling service. The organization would later become one of the largest mental health support services for Muslims in the UK.[5]

Suleyman subsequently worked as a policy officer on human rights for Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, before going on to start Reos Partners, a ‘systemic change’ consultancy that uses methods from conflict resolution to navigate social problems. As a negotiator and facilitator, Mustafa worked for a wide range of clients such as the United Nations, the Dutch government, and the World Wide Fund for Nature.[8][9]

[fakedang]

To be fair, Sam Altman is no tech guy either. Although you could also retort that Microsoft have no need for another management guy other than Nadella.

[8f2ab37a-ed6c]

Altman is not a deep PhD-level expert researcher in Machine Learning, but you could be a lot less technical than a Stanford CS dropout who built a tech co as his first swing. He's not exactly a management consultant LARPing being technical.

[fakedang]

I think Suleyman is the same kind of guy. At least from what I've read on him, he seems to have some technical chops, even if he isn't a PhD expert.