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Stack Overflow hires new CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar

Ben Halpern on September 24, 2019

๐Ÿ‘‰ Blog post from founder/outgoing CEO Joel Spolsky Background: Prashanth was born in Bangalore, India, the city with the highest numbe...
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Fulton Browne • Edited

Maybe he will tell some one to give stack overflow a dark mode!?!?

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Ben Halpern

Lol

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Bhupesh Varshney ๐Ÿ‘พ

Hey!! I need that ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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Ben Halpern

Given that Stack Overflow has really been transitioning its core business model to enterprise software this kind of makes sense. In terms of how this affects the core community, it's not really the kind of hire that delivers much to chew on one way or another.

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Alyss ๐Ÿ’œ

They just started another offering of stackoverflow for teams (similar to the enterprise one, but saas) as well. I think there's still quite a bit about SO for teams and regular SO that needs attention to give question-askers a positive experience, but some of that has to come from leadership.

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Mahendra Choudhary

Another Indian CEO , its feel good .

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sayujraghav

One More Indian CEO,feels good

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Interesting. Sounds like Joel will still be around:

As you know, Iโ€™m keeping my job as Chairman of the Board, so Iโ€™ll continue to be closely involved.