Andrew Tulloch turned down Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billion job offer. His LinkedIn profile is
August 3, 2025
Andrew Tulloch turned down Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billion job offer. His LinkedIn profile is viral
Andrew Tulloch, an Australian computer scientist, has gained attention after turning down a $1.5 billion job offer from Meta.
A graduate of the prestigious University of Cambridge, he started his career as a strategist with Goldman Sachs before an 11 year stint with Meta, where he worked mostly on machine learning. In October 2023, he quit Meta for OpenAI – the company that revolutionized the AI race with ChatGPT. Just over a year later, he moved from OpenAI to Thinking Machines Lab – the AI startup that has become the target of Mark Zuckerberg’s poaching blitz and one that is valued at $12 billion in its seed round despite not having launched a product yet.
We are talking about Andrew Tulloch, an Australian computer scientist who turned down Mark Zuckerberg’s job offer that would have potentially earned him as much as $1.5 billion over a period of six years, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Who is Andrew Tulloch?
Andrew Tulloch is a machine learning expert and co-founder of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab – a company that aims to take AI beyond chatbots.
He has been in the news ever since he was revealed to be the man who turned down Meta’s staggering nine-figure offer. The Journal report noted that even in Silicon Valley, where big paychecks don’t raise eyebrows, it is rare for someone to turn down a nine-figure salary.
People familiar with the matter said that the $1.5 billion figure is contingent upon bonuses and stock performance.
However, Meta spokesman Andy Stone called the description of the offer “inaccurate and ridiculous”. Stone added that any compensation package is predicated on a stock rising, per the report.
A report in Wired earlier stated that Zuckerberg had been trying to recruit researchers from Thinking Machines Lab for Meta’s new superintelligence unit. However, no one at TML has accepted his offers so far.
Andrew Tulloch’s viral LinkedIn profile
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