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Jason Punyon (jasonpunyon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 05:58:11 JST Jason Punyon
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@polotek Maybe it’s the opposite of VC led? OP glossed over that the VC money didn’t show up for about two years. And even when it did a lot of it got spent hiring people straight from meta. We held the majority of the board seats (@anildash was there). Not a lotta twirling of mustaches from my recollection.

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  Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 05:58:11 JST Anil Dash
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  @JasonPunyon @polotek the other large issue here is "VC" as the signifier when the company sold to an owner years ago? There are no VCs running Stack Overflow at present.
  
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  Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 05:58:22 JST Marco Rogers
  
  What does "community-led" mean in this context?
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    One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

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