2. What do they do?
Searches the Web, !
looks for textual matches
and returns links
Generates a specific answer
by doing computations from
it’s knowledge base
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4. History
Wolfram Research !
(Founded By !
Stephen Wolfram)!
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1987
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1988!
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Mathematica !
(Flagship Product)
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2009!
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A New Kind Of Science !
WolframAlpha !
(Launch)
(Flagship Product)!
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2002
5. What do they do?
“Make it possible to compute !
whatever can be computed about anything”
Linguistic Analysis!
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Curated Data!
Dynamic Computation !
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Computed Presentation !
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6. Financials
• A private company with no outside investors!
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• Revenue Model:!
- Wolfram Alpha Pro ($5.49 per month) and other paid iOS apps!
- Licensing: Search Engines (Bing and DuckDuckGo) and Voice Q/A (Siri, S Voice
and more) !
- Enterprise and Custom Solutions !
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• 100 employees
11. Buy or Sell?
• Buy!
• Applications of this technology are huge
‣ Licensing
‣ Business Intelligence ($14B/year)
‣ How can they market it for a layman?