Dr. Stephen Wolfram is a physicist and founder of Wolfram Research Inc. He is also recognized as the author of "A New Kind of Science," a groundbreaking work exploring computational systems and their implications in the natural world.
00:00 - Introduction
01:12 - Going from Highschool at 16 to PhD by 20 years old
15:27 - The story of starting Wolfram Research (and why he decided to bootstrap the company)
21:23 - Thinking in first principles
26:31 - Lessons learned on people management and leadership
31:40 - How to be extraordinary and position yourself for success
33:00 - What Wolfram's main skills are
41:15 - What to look for in co-founders
48:00 - How Wolfram makes big irreversible decisions
59:05 - Elon Musk's improvement process (and how Stephen thinks about product design, and decision making framework)
1:15:20 - Wolfram's relationship with money
1:25:00 - Using first principles to build wealth
1:35:30 - Artificial Intelligence
1:42:00 - How close are we to achieving AGI (and what the future could look like with AI)