Business & Innovation Q&A for Young Entrepreneurs & Others (June 9, 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 maintain the work-life balance? How do you decide what is more important the meeting or the gym training? - Could you list all of apps and big app projects u ever made? With brief descriptions - How do you decide your employees' compensation? - Why were you a physics prodigy? Did you just fall in love with the subject? Did someone encourage you? - How can venture capitalists identify the most talented young entrepreneurs? - ​What do you recommend for obtaining funding for your new business? - How to gain internal confidence and believe that what you do is right? - Does Wolfram handle its own cybersecurity or use third party MSP? - I have many questions. Do you automate testing? Do you group clients? How? Do you test UX? How? How would you connect CRM to the model of everything? - What is better kanban or scrum? - How do you work with executives when your job relies on long term thinking and investing (ex. cybersecurity) - Would have a question for Mr. Wolfram, how did you overcome the hurdles of being a solo founder - Another cybersecurity question: how do you address the risk of supply chain attacks since your language is used by other companies? - This is probably an undetermined question, but a friend of mine is starting a company in the healthcare software space and he wants me to leave my PhD program and help him co-found the company. What are the criteria that you would use to judge (the company idea, the grad school, and others) to evaluate this decision?