Wow Stack Overflow has 300 employees!!<p>So at a typical benchmark of $500,000 of revenue per employee they should be making atleast $150,000,000 per year in revenue. I have to imagine that they are making much more than that, given that I've seen valuations of $500 million.<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple-facebook-google-others-2016-2" rel="nofollow">http://www.businessinsider.com/revenue-per-employee-at-apple...</a><p>I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they are still very lean and well run, I'm a big fan, but the fact that they do data dumps makes me feel much better.<p>I've seen too many bankruptcy/wind downs of companies, and one thing you can usually bet on is that once that process starts, the data gets locked up and treated the same as any other asset, which is to say, sold to pay debts. Or put another way, once a company gets into trouble, releasing their data often gets taken off the table as an option.<p>Again as a reminder to startup employee's, the company was founded in 2008 and hasn't really had any talk about going public or selling, so always make sure you get atleast a market salary from any startup you join as your options even at a well run company could take more than a decade to provide you with liquidity.<p><i></i>EDIT<i></i> I can't math
Anil is a kind, thoughtful person and one of the few people in technology who will go out of his way to make time for you and genuinely get to know you without an agenda or need for a value exchange - I really admire that. We spent an afternoon wandering New York the time I met him, and he's truly constantly considering how he can impact the world in a meaningful way.<p>This is really, really cool, and he's a great fit for the job - along with the talented team over there. Super excited about this, personally.
I think of Dash as very respected in media, and I think of Fog Creek as being as the "engineers' company", so was surprised to see him CEO of Fog Creek and Joel CEO of StackOverflow. If anything, I would've thought it'd be vice versa? It's a testament to what a game-changer StackOverflow is in terms of information-design-for-humans that it could be capably headed by someone like Dash as much as Spolsky.<p>But if Fog Creek Software is tasked with coming up with more products and software-as-services, I would've thought that Spolsky would be more fit for that, even if StackOverflow is the biggest piece of the pie? (I admit to knowing little of how executive structures work though)
...as an aside, out of curiosity, does anyone know why the "...and the company goes away." phrase was linked to www.towerrecordsmovie.com specifically and how is that related to Fog Creek ?