PeopleofSuperintelligence

Blog

Posts about the people in the directory, computed from their career records.

  1. Google has had the most people in the directory every year since 2013A year-by-year race of the organizations with the most people in the directory since 1969, by people, combined h-index and citations.
  2. The United States employs 49% of the people in the directory with a known employerWhere the people in the directory work now, by country, and how the shares of the largest countries changed by decade since the first decade with 100 people.
  3. 50% of people in the directory with a known birthplace work outside the country where they were bornCountry of birth compared with the country of the current organization, for the people in the directory whose birthplace a source records.
  4. More people in the directory studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other universityThe universities where the people in the directory earned their degrees, from the degrees their biographies name, and where those former students work now.
  5. Google has the highest combined h-index of any organizationThe universities, companies and institutes whose current people in the directory add up to the highest combined h-index, with size compared to median h-index.
  6. The median person in the directory who works at a company is 17 years younger than the median person at a universityThe age of the people in the directory by the kind of organization they work at, the median age at a doctorate and at founding a company, and the youngest and oldest lab leaders.
  7. 44% of career moves in the directory go from one university to anotherHow 4,709 career moves by people in the directory link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, by decade, with net flows and the most common paths.
  8. 48 of 166 people who worked at Google are still thereWhere the 166 people in the directory who worked at Google, Google DeepMind or another Google lab work now.
  9. 9 of OpenAI's 32 former staff in the directory now work at AnthropicWhere people in the directory came from when they joined OpenAI, and where its former staff work now.
  10. 14% of career moves in the 2020s went from a university to a companyHow the share of moves from universities to companies changed by decade for people in the directory.
  11. Universities had a net outflow of 253 moves, and Stanford University had the largest net outflow of any organizationUniversities and companies in the directory compared by the median h-index of their current people and by the net flow of full career moves, with MIT and RIKEN as examples.