Stack Exchange launches our first
(non-trilogy) sites!
The year turns and we start planning world domination again.
Can we do better than 2010's 100% growth?
We hold our first world wide meetups and more than 2,000 attend in 100+ cities.
We hit what should typically be a summer lull but instead keep on growing!
Gaming breaks into the top 3 sites on our network.
Let that be a lesson kids: video games CAN make you succesful.
One of the most important things is that we've managed to maintain the same amazing quality across all our sites, even with our rapid growth.
We've got a 93% answer rate across the network - and that's using our not-so-easy-to-meet metric where a question is only considered answered if the answer is accepted by the original asker or upvoted at least once by a community member.
In 2011 we hired 22 people and totally outgrew most of the spaces in our office.
The shark and clown fish have nowhere to spawn.
We created an entire new team last year - out of nowhere.
They've lived up to their name both by wreaking havoc in the office and driving up site traffic.
To help spread Stack Exchange's glory even faster, we raised another $12M from our amazing investors.
Don't tell them what we're spending it on.
Nothing says “Tech Startup” like a 5 monitor HDTV wall for no use other than “Hey check out Google Analytics in amazing HD.”
Awesome.
2011 saw a serious increase in aquatic life-themed helium balloons that can be remotely controlled.
Because we are busier than ever, there has been a decrease in time to practice table tennis in hopes of defeating Emmett.
The office has come under siege by 7 of these 2-foot tall PET vinyl robots known as “Jumbo Machinders.”
The coat rack last tried to kill anyone.
One growing pain of our startup is a coat rack named Damian we’re pretty sure is possesed.
More developers killed their office plant companions than ever before.
Will 2012 be the year of zombie plants?
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unique visitors19M
page views* not including Stack Overflow, Server Fault or Super User
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unique visitors131M
page views* not including Stack Overflow, Server Fault or Super User
From the hundreds of Area 51 proposals that were started, we launched 42 sites into beta.
Including Bicycles, Android, GIS, Home Improvement and Apple to full Stack Exchange sites.
Doing particularly well is our gaming.stackexchange.com - now the third largest site on the network with more than 2.5 million visitors per month.
We’re planning on growing the team even more, adding more sites, turning some of our existing sites into behemoths (Gaming, anyone?) and making Careers 2.0 even better.
We might need some help with some of this, though. If you’re a developer and are interested in joining our Careers team in New York (sorry, no remote), drop us a line at jobs@stackoverflow.com (make sure to include a link to your Careers 2.0 profile).