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Stephen Wolfram

@stephenwolfram

British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)

Building Wolfram Research as Founder · United Kingdom

Key facts

Born
1959
Educated at
California Institute of Technology · Eton College · Dragon School · St John's College

About

Stephen Wolfram is a mathematician and physicist, born in 1959 in London. They studied at California Institute of Technology. They served as chief executive officer.

In context

Wolfram Research was founded in 1987 and has no closure on record. Among the 50 other software industry companies founded in the 1980s we hold, those that closed lasted a median of 13 years.

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