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This is absolutely phenomenal. Naspers/Prosus are some of the savviest and most forward-thinking players in tech investment — would you have been smart enough to give Tencent all that money, way back when? And remember, they were a bunch of nobodies based out of South Africa when that happened. This is much more interesting than a monopolist like Microsoft buying SO, and I’d be keen to see what the growth strategy is…
Ever heard of survivorship bias?
From the article:
“ Prosus invests globally across a range of online platforms focused on areas such as food delivery, classifieds and fintech. It also maintains a more than $200 billion holding in Tencent. Prosus’ parent company, Naspers Ltd. , acquired the Tencent stake in 2001 for $34 million.”
A bit odd there’s no announcement on stack overflows site? There is just this meta question: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/408138/what-will-ha... Has anyone seen anything?
I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers. Unrelated story, I have a day one Stack Overflow account. I don't remember how I found it but I'm sure it was posted on digg or slashdot or something at the time. I had a lot of posts in the first few years about some generally broad concepts, and completely inactive since. In spite of this, I am in the to…
My questions seem lame and my top answer is my own question: https://stackoverflow.com/users/108512/andrew-johnson?tab=pr...
I can’t read the whole article, but did this deal include the entire Stack Exchange network or just Stack Overflow?
I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers. Unrelated story, I have a day one Stack Overflow account. I don't remember how I found it but I'm sure it was posted on digg or slashdot or something at the time. I had a lot of posts in the first few years about some generally broad concepts, and completely inactive since. In spite of this, I am in the to…
I played Stack Overflow years ago and have a ~0.3% ranked account, despite not really posting in years. It's amazing how little the ranking seems to have changed in the last 10 years, wavering around in the top half percent whenever I've peeked. I don't know whether the number is dishonest, or whether the new stars and new signups just happen to hold it in status, never sending it to 0.03% or 3%.
I always thought Microsoft would be a natural buyer given the tech stack and Microsoft's support for developers. Unrelated story, I have a day one Stack Overflow account. I don't remember how I found it but I'm sure it was posted on digg or slashdot or something at the time. I had a lot of posts in the first few years about some generally broad concepts, and completely inactive since. In spite of this, I am in the to…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, the domain is experts-exchange.com. There's a dash there to prevent this mistake from happening.
They changed it.
The landing page for expertsexchange.com just says "Coming soon.", and if you view it with redirects turned on, you're sent to a page offering to sell it, owned by Venture.com.
# curl expertsexchange.com
expertsexchange.comexpertsexchange.comComing soon.
# dig +short expertsexchange.com | head -3 | paste -sd,
96.126.123.244,45.79.19.196,45.33.2.79
# dig +short experts-exchange.com | head -3 | paste -sd,
104.22.5.165,104.22.4.165,172.67.36.241
# whois experts-exchange.com | grep Registrar
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
# whois expertsexchange.com | grep Registrar
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.uniregistrar.com