Business & Innovation Q&A for Young Entrepreneurs & Others (Mar. 3, 2021)

Stephen Wolfram hosts live and unscripted Ask Me Anything about business and innovation for young entrepreneurs.

Originally livestreamed at: https://twitch.tv/stephen_wolfram

Outline of Q&A
0:00 Stream starts
3:42 Stephen begins the stream
4:21 Can you give us some insights into how you scaled up Wolfram, and what important issues / questions you had to tackle or what significant lessons you learned?
26:05 Are there cultural biases that you have had to overcome for breaking any prior limits in the possibilities of your activities?
33:39 How did you find your first employees? Did you have to go to a lot of places to find them?
44:45 Partner vs employee is a really interesting distinction to discuss - employees complete tasks, partners identify tasks worth investing in?
50:16 How do you deal with individuals who are strongly convicted that they are knowledgeable on a matter but actually have no idea what they are talking about?
57:03 Jim Cramer talked on Lex about political games Steve Jobs and his people played, a kind of high level thing. What does that really mean?
58:16 In the beginning, how many of your decisions about the company were gut instinct/market research/customer feedback/something else?
1:06:55 ​Is it possible to earn money doing free software? What is "Open Source" good for from your perspective?
1:17:16 How do you assess people to figure out their niche?

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