Timeline for What does the recent sale of Stack Exchange mean for the community?
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| Jun 12, 2021 at 7:31 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | "Management no longer needs to put lipstick on the pig" - love it! But when someone buys a pig at the market, it's rarely to keep it as a pet. The best we can hope is that this particular pig is for breeding, but there's always the risk that the choicest cuts end up on display at the butcher's, and the SE communities end up as offal. | |
| Jun 5, 2021 at 9:44 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | "I suspect a large multinational corporation will be an improvement for non-US employees and international Stack Overflows. (Maybe be a little more friendly with China.)" I'll file that under "I'll believe it when I see it" | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 17:47 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | @P.Mort.-forgotClayShirky_q: It's just that I don't know what "connect more deeply with their community" means. Not to say that Stack Overflow has it all figured out (it doesn't), but there's a risk of forcing ideas that don't work for SE/SO communities. It's more of a "mild" worry as I said and not very well defined at that. It's symbolic of the "when you have a hammer, everything is a nail" problem that happens when people don't understand a community as well as they might think they do. | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 12:35 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | Why are you worried about the education part (not a rhetorical question)? Can you elaborate a little bit? | |
| Jun 4, 2021 at 7:13 | comment | added | yo' | @anonymous I disagree. Remember that while each employee is replaceable, it's not that every employee is repleceable. You can replace a few, but you need the culture, common brain, ... to continue to exist -- that's the value in "employees"! | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 18:52 | comment | added | anonymous | They didn't pay $1.8B for the employees. There might be some institutional knowledge there that they want to ensure continues, but at the end of the day the employees are replaceable. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 14:55 | comment | added | Jon Ericson | @Luuklag: I had Teams bundled under "proprietary code", but I realized last night I should have added "customer relationships", which would include Teams and Enterprise. My concern with SE not getting mentioned is that it means the new company doesn't put a lot of value on it. Or, less pessimistically, hasn't formed plans or doesn't want to share its plans publicly. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 9:47 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | "I don't know a whole lot about Prosus..." I read the Wikipedia article. It belongs to Naspers which got rich by investing in Tencent and is now slowly selling the Tencent investment to sprawl all other the world. | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 7:37 | comment | added | Luuklag | Jon, I think your missing one point in your list of where value comes from. The commercial offerings such as SO for Teams. In regards to nothing mentioned about Stack Exchange, well they bought the entire company, not just the site SO. Stack Exchange does business under the name Stack Overflow, but this you were most likely aware of ;) | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 5:58 | history | edited | TinkeringbellMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 3, 2021 at 3:30 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | A TL;DR version of this answer I previously posted in chat | |
| Jun 3, 2021 at 2:55 | history | answered | Jon Ericson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |