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That said, I'm struggling to understand how/why a they could possibly need to raise now a total of $153MM.

Gotta make the work of those digital sharecroppers pay off somehow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-a-digital-sharecropper...

No, the fact that the blog post was written by a SO founder is not lost on me.




> This is a topic that I've spent a great deal of time thinking about, because we happen to run a site chock full of user generated questions and answers. The last thing I want to do is exploit Stack Overflow users for corporate gain, even accidentally. That's horrible.

Yikes. Right on the nose...


Yikes is right. Seems like they said the quiet part out loud.


Jeff Atwood had principles, which is why the current morally bankrupt leadership wants to erase him. Stack would have been in a much better place if he’d been left in charge.




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