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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by Timothycquinn »

yawn wrote: post #304
couchdb_ouchdb wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same for me. Day 1. I'm user 25 on the site as I listened to the podcast about them making it. Just for answering a few questions early I'm in the top 0.76% overall. https://stackoverflow.com/users/25/codingwithoutcomments

I miss that podcast. The 2 of them disagreed on some technical things, which made it more interesting. Listening to them all the way to success was pretty cool. Is there anything else out there like it? EDIT: People mentioning that they could remember where they were when they listened to the podcast makes me remember where I was when they had Jason Calacanis on the show who informed them that they were sitting on a…

With Jeff, loved the podcast. But without Jeff, not so much.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by LilBytes »

lloda wrote: post #542
nickysielicki wrote: post #509

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I'm with you. I've never had an active account on StackOverflow. I created an account once or twice after coming across a question where the "accepted" answer was incorrect, or where it was badly missing something about the big-picture, and I was appalled to find that they don't let new accounts answer questions -- you have to comment or upvote (or something?) before you gain the right to answer a question. Fuck that…

This has been my exact experience. So to me it's always been a read only site.

Adding my voice to the quorum, same here.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by notsureaboutpg »

berkes wrote: post #415
yaitsyaboi wrote: post #99

Everyone is saying how 1.8B is a ton, but I’m kinda surprised that it’s “barely” more than the Depop acquisition today at 1.6B.

Such valuations are most based on future revenue. Depop already makes solid revenue and showed growth of 100% last year. Stackoverflow is still struggling with revenue. It is not about how many users you have, or how much value you offer to those users. But all about how much money you make off them.

We all know it's about money. It's more of a reflection about how little money knowledge makes you, and how much money selling clothes, makeup, and other self-image enhancers makes.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by bilekas »

> Prosus, one of Europe’s most valuable tech companies, is best known as the largest shareholder in Chinese internet and videogaming giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. Listed in Amsterdam, Prosus signaled its appetite for deal making when it sold a small portion of its equity stake in Tencent in April for $14.6 billion. The Stack Overflow deal ranks among Prosus’ biggest acquisitions.

Not sure this was properly vetted.

Call me tinfoil Thursday, but this sounds off.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by mikeywazowski »

antifa wrote: post #715
mikeywazowski wrote: post #616

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This person has freely put in the effort to provide a solution to a problem you have at work, and you can't even be bothered to click the upvote button? Also, maybe this is just because I'm just a forgetful idiot, but on numerous occasions upvoting has proven beneficial to me. I'll be searching for the solution to a problem and I find that I've already upvoted a question which relates to my issue - then if there's an…

Can't upvote on SO without spending ??? hours farming karma. People start answers with "don't have enough reputation to comment, but in response to the other answer [...]". Left the only answer on several questions, probably averaging 0.2 upvotes per answer. My high priority work questions: mostly no answers, even years later. I wrote a self answer, years later one or zero upvotes. I ask a question with an example, t…

Oh yeah, if you don't have enough karma to upvote then I totally agree (especially if you've put in the effort). I was assuming that you had upvote privileges.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by tomglynch »

ac42 wrote: post #726
tomglynch wrote: post #718

Reading the headline " selling for $ bn" is become an increasingly common occurrence for me

For me it's the " is buying for $ bn" type of headlines that seems to be on the rise.

Yeah agreed. My comment was tongue in cheek copying a comment from the Depop sale thread on HN yesterday.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by SNosTrAnDbLe »

geebee wrote: post #668

Wow, remarkable. Tech forums were a crowded field when stack overflow entered, but it really was a cut above everything else. Good answers, well moderated, no dancing mortgage ads, no long bitter arguments where people call each other idiots because they use Java, no pop up windows. That's not the worst path to 1.8 bil.

I liked SO because it was a refreshing change from the php based bulletin boards.

However, I do miss hanging out on Ubuntu forums(in fact all *nix forms for that matter).

People were always always ready to help no matter how big or small the question. Someone always came along and showed me the right way to setup the printer.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by w-m »

scandinavian wrote: post #512
polynomial wrote: post #472

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Where did his 3,675 reputation come from? He only asked 2 questions and has a small number of badges.

His questions have 444 upvotes, so he should actually have 4400 rep. He lost some to users being deleted. Looking at the reputation log he actually has less than he should have, but I'm not an expert.

Missing rep could be explained by the daily reputation limit of 200. Many upvotes on the same day when the questions get linked from news articles and discussions like this, only will count until daily cap is hit.

Re: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

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Post by mr_toad »

linsomniac wrote: post #147

I ended up losing access to my ancient account (it was using the OpenID providers that they don't even support anymore and the provider I used isn't around). I had gone fairly inactive, but recently wanted to contribute some content. This was on the DIY stackoverflow, there's a fairly common problem on my stove, but an easy, low/no cost fix, it's just very involved. The DIY SO had a good discussion of the problem. To…

SO doesn’t have threads.

Discussions are discouraged.

There are clearly people commenting here who don’t understand how the SO works, and haven’t bothered to read the FAQ.

This is exactly why SO needs restrictions on new accounts.

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