Timeline for What does the recent sale of Stack Exchange mean for the community?
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| Jun 17, 2021 at 19:43 | comment | added | Travis J | It doesn't feel honest for you to contend that "not much" will change this year, which to be fair is probably just naivety, but still, there is no way to tell what changes they will make after the first quarterly reports when they are full owners. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 16:20 | comment | added | Eric Duminil | Don't shoot the messenger: many promises from the staff weren't kept in the past, so don't be surprised if the community doesn't believe your claims. We'll see what happens. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:45 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @JeroenMostert considering that Spolsky said something like "congrats to 61 newly minted millionaires"... it sounds like your lottery comparison might be apt. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 11:25 | comment | added | Jeroen Mostert | "Many are in shock" and "excited about the future" tend to be moods that are quite far removed from each other. I might feel that way if I just won the lottery; not so much if the company I work for suddenly got bought by an investment juggernaut. Let me say that I hope the employees won't live in times that are too interesting. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 9:42 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | Looking forward to the coming details, but saying that a selling is business as usual might be an understatement. It's probably the opposite. I understand the message that it's not expected to be a big change. It still might be though. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 6:18 | comment | added | sunny moon | So someone just paid $1.8B for you to keep operating independently. That surely beats the notorious burning of £1M by the KLF back in 1994! | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 22:48 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | @wizzwizz4 We suspected... There's a difference. I think the odds were on MS. I've never heard of prosus 😅. | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 20:41 | comment | added | TylerH | @BryanKrause That's not really what I'm asking. The community also doesn't need to know that the company was sold, for what it's worth. | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 20:15 | comment | added | Bryan Krause | @TylerH That sort of thing (which people internally are involved in settling a particular business contract) doesn't seem like something the community needs to know. | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 18:57 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | @TylerH I assume you're asking about “knowledge of the specifics”. Many of us community members knew SO management was trying to sell the company. | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 18:42 | comment | added | TylerH | Can you tell us anything about who from the company knew ahead of time? Was it just folks on this page: stackoverflow.com/company/leadership who were aware? Or did only the board know? | |
| Jun 2, 2021 at 18:32 | history | answered | Teresa DietrichStaffMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |