# How One Blog Led to $18m of Funding & The World's Largest Online Q&A Community

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**Created:** [March 31, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-one-blog-led-to-18m-of-funding-the-worlds-largest-online-q-a-community/111 "2018-03-31T06:34:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ghost](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ghost/32/15563_2.png) [@Ghost](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Ghost)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-one-blog-led-to-18m-of-funding-the-worlds-largest-online-q-a-community/111/1 "2018-03-31T06:34:12Z")

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There are a few names in the web community which pop up time and time again in the historical records. People who have been responsible for great change in the technological, the business and the social aspects of the web. One name that many (if not most) will recognise, is Jeff Atwood; co-founder of Stack Overflow, and now - his new project - Discourse.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://blog.ghost.org/how-one-blog-led-to-18m-of-funding-the-worlds-largest-online-qa-community/](https://blog.ghost.org/how-one-blog-led-to-18m-of-funding-the-worlds-largest-online-qa-community/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/how-one-blog-led-to-18m-of-funding-the-worlds-largest-online-q-a-community/111/2 "2021-10-13T18:38:24Z")

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