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Yeah, I'm surprised that a company whose core product could be run by three people for less than a million USD per year with room to spare for lavish company ca
by chmod775 3y ago
Yeah, I'm surprised that a company whose core product could be run by three people for less than a million USD per year with room to spare for lavish company cars, somehow manages to lose $84 million USD.
- bunga-bunga 3y agoThis is a “Dropbox is just a pretty rsync”-level comment
- chmod775 3y agoPlenty of sites of similar scale were run on less or are to this day. SO also is technologically as basic as it gets. They don't even serve big files.
- b112 3y agoSome can't stand the fact that they have a perfect product.
- tmpz22 3y agoI think OP may be referencing SO has multiple products outside the core QA site that may be more headcount-intensive or at least have more costs outside a few .NET servers and a well tuned database. Not to mention an international presence benefiting from 24-hour on-call rotations that would benefit from international offices and other fixtures that are very expensive to maintain.
- toyg 3y agoAtwood and Spolsky themselves boasted repeatedly that SO, for a long time, was just a Windows server and a SQL Server with some C#. The key element in the success of SO was not technical: it was Spolsky and Atwood leveraging already-established (Microsoft) audiences they had, to create a virtuous circle of sharing that snowballed for years.
- Pigalowda 3y agoMusk can buy it and run it like that. Maybe drop the O and make it SX?