Have you ever wondered how much stack overflow is worth? I have been wondering that as well. Hence, I wrote this article detailing the research I have done.
Stack Overflow is one of the largest developer communities in the world. It is owned by a private company named Stack Exchange, Inc. which was founded by the developers of Stack Overflow. Since it’s a private company, nothing about its funding, revenue, profit and valuation is publicly available.
But the revenue and other financial indicators of similar websites will give us an idea of how much it is worth. Recently, Github was sold to Microsoft for $7.5 billion. At the time of writing, Github had 45+ million users. That’s about 3.5 times larger than the 13+ million users Stack Overflow has. 7.5/3.5 gives us a modest $2.14 billion valuation.
However, a large number of users in both websites are dormant. ...
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