Demis Hassabis: AI researcher, entrepreneur & neuroscientist

British born Demis Hassabis has founded a number of companies in his career including Elixir Studios, DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs. Sharing his thoughts on founding companies, Hassabis noted: "The big breakthroughs and new companies that are going to be created in the future are interdisciplinary ones, where you make connections between two disparate subjects, and that's going to happen again and again in the next 20 years. It's going to be where a lot of the big breakthroughs come from." From a young age, Hassabis showed a keen interest in chess and by the age of 13 had reached master standard with an Elo rating of 2300. At 17, Hassabis joined the computer games company Bullfrog Productions, where he worked as a designer on the game Syndicate.