On Starting a Long-Term Company
Stephen Wolfram:
Well, this was 1986. And it was right at the time when personal computers were starting to get fairly powerful.
I'd been used to using all sorts of separate programs--and custom software--for things I wanted to do. But I had the idea that perhaps I could make one really general computational system that I could just use forever.
And that lots of other people would find useful too.
Well, that was what launched me on building Mathematica. I was pretty definite and determined about it.
And I knew I needed to start a company.
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