It's in the top 50 websites of the world. Probably worth something. https://www.alexa.com/topsites

This is the only correct answer, IMO.

all the other pundits miss that if the deal was for existing source of revenue, it would have been priced as modestly as those are.

So you think there will be 4-5x as many ads and "click tiny [x] to actually see the contents" ads ? I don't see how else they can leverage the platform to make significant cash.

I don't think anything :) just that the price, if it were reflecting existing revenue sources, would be much lower.

The seller and buyer both agree that the promise of something else is what was traded, as the price proves.

Is it though? Genuinely curious.

It has been show time and time again that users of free websites likes this won't pay and ads are only worth so much.

The jobs feature is pretty valuable and brings in significant revenue, it’s not something to scoff at. Being able to target and screen developers is a great HR tool.

There are likely a lot of companies with lower revenues and higher valuations.

It’s because of their Teams product - https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/stack-overflow-adds-a-free...

Just wait till you have to pay big time for your programming answers. 1,800,000,000.- is a lot of benjamins to earn back.

search any programming related on google always have some stockoverflow links. stockoverflow rank pretty well with search engine. i think that alone is already worth a billion.