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Re:Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20% by srcmap on Thursday November 02, 2017 @04:23PM (#15613927)
Maybe the pressure was slowly building up from investors/board. They wanted the returns, profit, path to IPO , VC's carry for the Nth largest site of the internet.

From the https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stack-overflow, the first round was from 2010 - 7 years ago. USV will like to get their exit soon.

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Re:Stack Overflow reducing headcount by 20% by fjsolwmv on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:31AM (#15619921)
I don't know, I figure that SO's investors made billions via value SO created for their other portfolio company. Investing in SO is like building a well or a power plant.
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