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> bezos, jobs, musk, wolfram One of those things is not like the other lol
by martinky24 3y ago
> bezos, jobs, musk, wolfram
One of those things is not like the other lol
- nomilk 3y agoJobs, because he didn’t do it himself? The commonality is they all brought $1b+ ideas to market; they didn’t just have good ideas, but did the hard work necessary to execute on them.
- martinky24 3y agoIn what world is anything Wolfram has created a $1b+ idea?
- perrygeo 3y agoMathematica has half-billion+ in annual revenue and has been a mainstay of engineering work for decades. So ... this world?
- martinky24 3y agoAlright, I'm gonna need a source cited on that one lmao. Absolutely no way.
- perrygeo 3y agoWell it's an employee-owned company. Your data is as good as mine. You assert that Wolfram's work is worth less than $1billion. You're quite emphatic about that fact. Let's just do some back-of-the-napkin math to assess if your premise has any validity. Mathematica has been around for over 40 years. It has 1600+ employees. Tell me, how could a private company make payroll for 1600 top earners without hundreds of millions in revenue? They had no outside funding that we know of. Obviously this company has made $1 billion dollars in its lifetime. Many times over I'd guess.
- lodovic 3y agoExistence doesn't guarantee profitability - they may have investors with a lot of patience and deep pockets. After 40 years, they should indeed turn a nice profit, but I'm not sure if it brings in billions. Many people see their product as educational software.
- cma 3y agoLook up what revenue is, it isn't the same as profits.
- martinky24 3y agoIt does not have 1600+ employees. It's in the couple hundreds. Again, source, I worked there.
- cma 3y agoDidn't Apple contract with them for parts of Siri, using Wolfram Alpha?