Stack Overflow

“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.”

“We are the highest rated developer tool as voted in by developers in the most recent stack overflow survey. And you'll note that this is even higher than tools like chat GPT and GitHub copilot.”

“I don't think most of us got much value from Chachapi team. Largely because I think the problem was, and this is maybe a little bit of a different thing, it's, like, a lot of the engineers at the company who have been writing software for, like, over eight yea…”

“And it took me two weeks, no AI, just Stack Overflow, Google, and searching for everything there.”

“There are entire sites like Stack Overflow and WikiHow that are basically disappeared now because you can just swallow them all up and you can just spit it all back out in ChatGPT with slight changes.”

“Microsoft was customer number one, and then we went from enterprise down to where we are today, which we've now got 15,000 Customers leveraging Stack Overflow for the teams.”

“They pay, I won't say specifically Microsoft, but generally speaking, it has multiple tiers, so the enterprise tier is anywhere, it's close to about 18, 19 dollars or so per seat per month,”

“It's certainly over a hundred million.”

“So over 60% we have about, probably close to now 70% of our company's revenues are recurring, and they were actually non-recur, they were not recurring revenues when I started in 2018.”

“I joined in 2019, and immediately, you know, the pandemic in early 2020 hit, and then we saw that very directly. You know, we had Talent job listings. People stop hiring. So why would you actually put job listings? And then why would you actually advertise on …”

“The early version of the product was literally a copy of the public stack overflow, but obviously completely a private version of it, and just sort of Tested in the context of these big companies.”

“In the context of, like, post customer one and two, I think at that point we started saying, okay, let's actually think about every possible customer that is using Stack Overflow, so we actually had that very specific list of the largest users company-wise, an…”

“The outbound SDR process is we're saying, okay, what are the big companies over 5000 you know, users that we can go after, and then in the context of, you know, getting them to pitch the product, and our SDRs go make those outbound calls and go do them systema…”

“Yeah, probably between nine to 12 months for the largest strategics. Like the Microsofts. The enterprise is probably closer to six months, and an SMB customer is probably anywhere between one and three months.”

“A hundred million people use Stack Overflow.”

“We are very big partners of theirs. We actually engage with them in their, ah, you know, their Azure partnership area, if you call it, the ISP program. And we align with their reps to be able to go and sell into accounts jointly.”

“When we went and did a bunch of, ah, surveys, ah, in our user base, a 100,000 people responded and said, you know, 70% of them wanted to use AI tools for software development or for something related to technology development, but only 40% of them trusted what…”

“We launched this program called Overflow API, and the first company that basically engaged with us is, ah, Google, and so now all Stack Overflow content, when used within Gemini's AI capability, will show up in their AI tools with links to Stack Overflow back …”

“Did you know that that company sold? This wasn't in the news too often, but did you know that company sold for 1.8 billion dollars?”

“Just some huge traffic, by the way. They get almost like two hundred million monthly visitors.”

“Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow, they're gonna just get taken out.”

“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…”

“The other thing that all these loops have in common is nothing is a trick question. Like we try to put people into an environment, which is as close to doing the actual work together as we possibly can. So I mean, for engineers, for instance, we've got several…”

“And at the time they were thinking in terms of like, maybe you can replace Stack Overflow or something, you know, do a Stack Overflow competitor.”

“ChatGPT got banned from stack overflow because it sounded convincing, but wasn't quite right all the time.”

“Copilot. Helps developers stay in the flow by bringing all of that information into the editor, preventing them from having to go check out documentation or watch a tutorial or go to Stack Overflow and, you know, either find an answer or worse, have to ask a q…”

“After stack overflow, I think is the most mentioned Platform on social media and everywhere.”

“Stack Overflow sold to a tech giant that I'd never heard of called Prosus, P-R-O-S-U-S, for 1.8 billion dollars.”

“And once you raise that level of money that they did, true venture, not tiny seed money, right? Not angel money. The clock starts ticking, right? You have to have a liquidity event. So they needed to IPO or they needed to sell at a certain point.”

“They will do interesting things with the money. They're not going to go retire on a beach somewhere. They're going to start their next company or they're going to help, you know, other entrepreneurs.”

“This was around 2017 when we really started building all of the developer community engagement programs that AWS still has today, including our developer Slack, our Reddit engagement, our Stack Overflow engagement, open sourcing product roadmaps on GitHub.”

“I think like we saw this a long time ago at Stack Overflow when we were hiring salespeople, if we would put Physically just put a junior salesperson next to somebody that was really good. Like just sit them seated at their desk next to somebody that over time,…”

“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'…”

“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 …”

“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 …”

“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…”

“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 …”

“After five years of Stack Overflow, we basically built a team that was growing a hundred percent, a 130% on average in bookings year on year, which for SaaS companies is pretty substantial.”

“And at Stack Overflow, our attrition rate for EMEA for the five years I was managing the team was just one percent.”

“Algolia in itself, Came to being because of questions on Stack Overflow. If you don't know Stack Overflow, it's a very, very famous developers forum, and we saw many questions and answered questions about app developers wanting to embed Lucene, which is a sear…”