Business & Innovation Q&A for Young Entrepreneurs & Others (May 12, 2021)
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 do you track if people are working or not if they are not in the office? I personally do not really like the idea of NFT as just purely art, do you know of any special use cases for NFTs that you think are not considered enough, or have you thought of any special use cases of NFTs that others have not really considered? - Do you own any shares? What companies would you consider worth buy a share of? - What do you think would happen in society if we discovered the Genetic Fountain of Youth? Would you reverse your age if possible? - How much of your software do you understand? - At what level of technology do you think we humans are at, the peak? Not even close to the peak? Close to the peak? - Have you ever designed and/or sold hardware? What skillsets are the same / different for developing hardware vs. software? - Have you created a business applying cellular automata? Do you know someone who did it? Are today's nerds and their enterprises missing out on anything by leaving traditional managerial CEOs out, or do nerds simply produce better products/processes? - Have you seen the Google Primer app? business development info as flashcards in course form - How has your engagement with your company as CEO changed since the initial founding? Did you find it difficult to stop overseeing certain things as the company grew in size, for instance, and as the nature of your role changed?