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The peculiar thing is that everyone could already notice the decline trend before Prosus bought it. The big question is how anyone could ever think that anything but (targeted) advertising would work as a business model for this site - all byproducts like company sponsorships or the "Teams" thing aren't going to bring in money in the long term.

Lundin
– Lundin

2026-01-12 10:44:05 +00:00
Commented Jan 12 at 10:44
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There's been speculation (far-fetched or not?) that the purchase wasn't even meant to bring in profit since nobody sane would buy SO in hope to make profit. But that was just part of the general "white washing" that Prosus is doing on behalf of their apartheid-associated parent company Naspers. More info: physics.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/13609/…

Lundin
– Lundin

2026-01-12 10:45:11 +00:00
Commented Jan 12 at 10:45
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It's worth remembering that Teams was relatively newly-launched when the purchase happened and it was seen as a pretty major revenue stream. Microsoft Teams didn't add Q&A until 2022, so I think it was seen as a really viable product offering... now that it's part of MSFT Teams, though, I imagine it's struggling to compete.

Catija
– Catija

2026-01-14 15:06:57 +00:00
Commented Jan 14 at 15:06
Prosus basically bet a fair bit on the ed-tech market right around covid. If nothing else, we are probably in better shape than one of their other investments, a formerly massive indian ed-tech org called bijous IIRC

Journeyman Geek
– Journeyman Geek

2026-01-15 10:29:54 +00:00
Commented Jan 15 at 10:29

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