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sida
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Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
Why didn't Microsoft go after this? it seems like an incredibly powerful community that blends really well with linkedin AND github
jmcphers
on June 2, 2021
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Total speculation, but Joel is ex-Microsoft (he worked on Excel for years) and I don't think he would sell to his former employer. I've worked with a number of Microsoft alums; all of them have seen how Microsoft acquisitions usually turn out.
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