[OliverJones]

I would really like to see what Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood, the original creators of Stack Overflow, have to say about the current state of affairs. Their business model was recruiting by identifying people with specific skills, and it was effective. I hired and was hired that way.

(They sold it years ago to a South African private equity venture and made the pile of money they deserved.)

[yankput]

I think it was not really making money the whole time they operated it though and the job finding angle wasn’t really making that much money, neither was the private enterprise SO thing

[kodra]

Someone should feed an LLM all the Joel on Software articles and ask it to comment on Stack Overflow.

But a serious question: is Joel still in charge of SO? Has he retired?

[adamgordonbell]

They sold it and in retrospect they really nailed the timing of the sale.