Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by tnolet on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:21PM (#27370547)

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

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by lurkerasdfh8 on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:35PM (#27370755)

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.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by stjohnswarts on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @06:25PM (#27374812)

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.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by lurkerasdfh8 on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:07PM (#27398513)

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.

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Re:Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B by LunaSea on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @12:44PM (#27370868)

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.

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