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A comment on Google’s Don Dodge: Q&A site StackOverflow’s valuation “gave me a heart attack” .

Re:Google’s Don Dodge: Q&A site StackOverflow’s valuation “g... by df07 on Friday February 25, 2011 @08:12AM (#2262036)
This is taken completely out of context. He was referring to a fake stock market for conference attendees at http://secondmarket.com where Stack Overflow "closed" at something ridiculous like $365/share
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Re:Google’s Don Dodge: Q&A site StackOverflow’s valuation “g... by jasonkilkner on Friday February 25, 2011 @08:34AM (#2262101)
It's not fake, people actually trade privately held shares on there. Significant amounts of privately held facebook shares have been bought and sold there and hence it's one of the sources of valuation.

He is right to say so though. I don't know about SO being worth 8 or 9 figures, that's very comical. If you don't think so, then I have a one way first class ticket to reality that i'd like to sell you for $4,200.

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Re:Google’s Don Dodge: Q&A site StackOverflow’s valuation “g... by frankdenbow on Friday February 25, 2011 @08:41AM (#2262119)
No, df07 is talking about the fake stock market game Secondmarket built for the launch conference. http://simx.secondmarket.com
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