Stack Overflow

“One of my candidates for an industry entering the end of ownership or that may eventually is education in the sense that, you know, you have a huge upfront commitment of K through 12 and then four years of college and then maybe grad school and so on. And you …”

“If you can do three minutes of work to answer something that maybe 10 people in the world know the answer to, and you can save somebody hours and hours of discovery, there's almost no stronger force than the motivation to help that person. And it's especially …”

“It's really looking at a programmer's public work now that's relevant. And so just like you wouldn't hire a designer without looking at a portfolio that they brought, brought you when you're hiring a programmer today, you're likely to look at the, Open source …”

“We think is that people have given up from learning a priori how to use the programming environments that they're working in. They don't even read a book, let alone the documentation. I think they start by writing code or by cutting and pasting code. They don'…”

“When we started building Stack Overflow we did a lot of research on how many software developers there were in the world, and the conclusion seems to be nine million people that call themselves software developers in the world, and we had at the time six milli…”

“I mean, like to me, the canary in the coal mine was stack overflow, which my understanding, I, we used to obviously, we used to be investors before they got acquired. And my understanding is that's one of the key things that went into the training algorithms f…”

“If you look at, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, like a lot of these kind of interesting kind of movements, like community sites, like they're often like 20,000 people, like they aren't that many, they aren't the millions that you might think.”