# Stephen Wolfram on Reddit (u/StephenWolfram-Real)

Part of Founders and CEOs on Reddit, researched with Autumn (https://www.autumn.ai) from public sources. Updated 2026-11-07. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/founders-on-reddit/stephen-wolfram

Stephen Wolfram: Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research.

- Reddit account: [u/StephenWolfram-Real](https://www.reddit.com/user/StephenWolfram-Real/) (AMA only)
- How we know it's theirs: [His 2012 r/IAmA AMA, posted from this account](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/)
- Where they post, in the records we retrieved: r/IAmA (29)
- Known activity in the posts we found: 2012 to 2020
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Wolfram

## Moments

### u/StephenWolfram-Real in r/IAmA, Mar 5, 2012 · Behind the scenes

Replying to a redditor:

> What is the most interesting use of Mathematica and/or Wolfram Alpha you've ever seen?

> There are so many; very hard to pick just one.
>
> An old one for Mathematica: Mike Foale was using it on the Mir space station; there was an accident; the computer it was on got sucked into space; Mike had a backup disk, but needed a password for a different computer; all-time favorite call to customer service ... and finally an in-action solving of equations of motion for a spinning space station.
>
> Of course, for me personally, my favorite Mathematica "uses" are the research for A New Kind of Science, Wolfram|Alpha ... and the building of Mathematica itself.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfram_mathematica_nks_wolframalpha/c3xyqf7/ · 1,048 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/StephenWolfram-Real in r/IAmA, Mar 5, 2019 · Personal story

Replying to a redditor:

> Do you see working from home to be a more common and expected thing in the future?

> I have to say that I've been "working from home" for most of my working life (i.e. 40+ years).  I've had some fine offices to go to, but somehow I always end reverting to working at home.  It's not that I don't like people, but somehow I find I'm more productive at home.  Back in the day (~1980) I worked at home by having a dumb terminal connected to an acoustic coupler continuously dialed up to a computer.  [Remarkably, it glitched only about every 6 months...]
>
> At my company, perhaps half our people work at home, scattered around the world.  (And some seem to travel randomly from place to place :) )  I'm not sure if it works well for everyone, but for the kind of get-things-done people we like, it seems to work well.

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/axf32h/i_am_stephen_wolfram_founder_ceo_of_wolfram/eht8ct1/ · 436 points as of Nov 7, 2026

### u/StephenWolfram-Real in r/IAmA, Mar 5, 2019 · Personal story

Replying to a redditor:

> I've read before how you're an enthusiast about keeping "personal analytics" and I noted that you touched on that in your recent essay/post. What have been the most useful personal analytics that you've tracked? And, if I may ask a follow-up to that: What have been the most…

> The most useful thing by far that I have is a good email archive, going back 30 years, and well searchable.  Also an OCR'ed archive of pretty much every piece of paper in my life.  As far as data goes, I find my real-time dashboard of email backlog as a function of time pretty helpful.  Oh, and I also find my count-up timer of how long I've been asleep useful.  Other personal analytics I end up accumulating, and then look at if I have a specific question.
>
> Actually, there's another thing: I've noticed that a day or two before I get sick with a fever, my heart rate seems to go up.  However, in an example of how difficult medical science can be, I've (happily) only gotten sick 3 times in the last 3 years or so since I've been continuously measuring my heart rate.  The first two times I saw this effect.  But the most recent time I don't think I did, though it was hard to tell because other things were affecting my heart rate...

Full thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/axf32h/i_am_stephen_wolfram_founder_ceo_of_wolfram/eht7vip/ · 1,069 points as of Nov 7, 2026