Business & Innovation Q&A for Young Entrepreneurs & Others (March 17, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

Stephen Wolfram answers questions from his viewers about business and innovation as part of an unscripted livestream series, also available on YouTube here: https://wolfr.am/youtube-sw-business-qa

Questions include: How did Champaign become the base of operations of the company? - Why haven't you lived in Champaign for "three decades"? - Is it a doable thing to work at a university and run a startup at the same time? - Hi Stephen, at pre-revenue stage, should a company aim for reaching revenue faster at the expense of cash or for saving cash in order to survive little longer at the expense of time/market opportunity - How do you deal with employees who may be very talented and productive, but may find it hard to fit in with the rest of the team? I wonder if it's even possible for large companies to be agile - How do you plan a roadmap for your company? Does it just happen naturally or is there some deep thought that goes into what you want to make happen? - What's your experience with management paradigms like SCRUM and agile? Can you recommend a 'general strategy'? - Would you please elaborate on the distributed nature of your company? - Should there be a limit on the maximum number of people on a project or in a meeting? - Is there a suitable time period which one must devote to reading about previous innovations/developments related to the theme of a project, before actually jumping onto the implementation? - Is it possible or practical to avoid mid-managers while scaling up the company by creating sub-founders who work just like the founder at the founding stage of the company - What are the most tiresome things in your job as a CEO? - How do you stay so intense and focused after all these years when you could've retired much much earlier?