Who are Stack Overflow's co-founders?

Stack Overflow was co-founded by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky.

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Q: What happened to Stack Overflow's founders?

2 people who founded or worked at Stack Overflow went on to start 5 other companies, including Jeff Atwood (Stack Exchange and Discourse) and Joel Spolsky (Glitch, Inc., Stack Exchange and Trello).

Stack Overflow was founded in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky. It is a Developer Tools company.

Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for computer programmers.

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Stack Overflow founders & co-founders

What happened to Stack Overflow’s founders and alumni

5 companies

People who worked at or founded Stack Overflow and went on to start their own companies.

Jeff Atwood

2 founded

Stack Exchange 2010 Discourse 2013

Joel Spolsky

3 founded

Glitch, Inc. 2000 Stack Exchange 2010 Trello

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