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EPISODE · May 18, 2025 · 1H 1M

Prashanth Chandrasekar: Stack Overflow CEO Empowering Developer Community

from Venture with Grace · host Grace Gong

Prashanth Chandrasekar is the CEO and Board Member of Stack Overflow, the world's largest and most trusted community and platform for developers and technologists. With over 100 million global monthly visitors and market-leading, fast-growing collaboration and knowledge-sharing Enterprise SaaS and AI products, Stack Overflow enables the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. In 2021, Stack Overflow was acquired by Prosus for $1.8Bn.Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace's Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. He also held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace's high-growth, global business focused on the world's leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace's history.Topics:AI's impact on developer workflowsLeadership approaches for transforming tech platforms into enterprise giantsMaintaining developer trust while evolving commercial strategies#StackOverflow #TechLeadership #DeveloperCommunity #SaaSThis episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater transparency. Ready to make your fund operations smoother? Visit Verivend.com and see how easy it can be.

Prashanth Chandrasekar is the CEO and Board Member of Stack Overflow, the world's largest and most trusted community and platform for developers and technologists. With over 100 million global monthly visitors and market-leading, fast-growing collaboration and knowledge-sharing Enterprise SaaS and AI products, Stack Overflow enables the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. In 2021, Stack Overflow was acquired by Prosus for $1.8Bn.Previously, he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace's Cloud & Infrastructure Services portfolio of businesses, including the Managed Public Clouds, Private Clouds, Colocation and Managed Security businesses. He also held a range of senior leadership roles at Rackspace including Senior Vice President & General Manager of Rackspace's high-growth, global business focused on the world's leading Public Clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Alibaba Cloud, which became the fastest growing business in Rackspace's history.Topics:AI's impact on developer workflowsLeadership approaches for transforming tech platforms into enterprise giantsMaintaining developer trust while evolving commercial strategies#StackOverflow #TechLeadership #DeveloperCommunity #SaaSThis episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater transparency. Ready to make your fund operations smoother? Visit Verivend.com and see how easy it can be.

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