Stephen Wolfram on 28 Years of Remote Work

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Stephen Wolfram started out on an academic career path, but eventually realized that founding a company would allow him to pursue his scientific work more efficiently. He’s served as a remote CEO of Wolfram Research for the last 28 years. In this episode, Stephen shares with host Matt Mullenweg β€” another remote CEO β€” his perspective on the value of geo-distribution, and the processes his partially-distributed company uses to make world-changing software. 

The full episode transcript is below.

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