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6 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2019
Chandrasekar joined Stack Overflow in 2019, when it was engineering-led and centered on its public platform, and began moving it to a product-led organization.
“I joined a company that was engineering-led in 2019, all about this public platform”
2023
Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar tied the company's deadline for its response to ChatGPT to a speech at the We Are Developers Conference in Berlin, about six months away.
“I was gonna go speak at the We Are Developers Conference in Berlin. And I effectively told the company, hey, we've got six months to go and produce our response”
2025
Chandrasekar estimates that traffic to most ad-supported content websites has fallen about 30 to 40 percent.
“most, uh, content sites, their traffic is down thirty to 40%, something like that.”
2025
Chandrasekar says Stack Overflow is a growing, profitable company.
“We believe so, yeah, we're a growing company, we're profitable, so, you know, financially, we're thankfully in a very good spot.”
Undated
Before Stack Overflow, Chandrasekar worked at Rackspace in cloud services, where he ran a business responding to the threat from Amazon Web Services.
“my experience right before that was at Rackspace, uh, in the cloud services space.”
Undated
Chandrasekar's business school professor was Clayton Christensen, author of The Innovator's Dilemma, whose ideas influenced how he handled disruption.
“my professor was, uh, Clayton Christensen, uh, and, you know, he wrote the book Innovator's Dilemma.”
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