Unless you're already minted beyond measure, selling anything at any time for $1.8B is a great deal, you and everyone you ever cared about are set for life.

OP was refering to SO being on a massive decline since then.

HN comments at that time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27370026 | 2330 points | June 2, 2021 | 852 comments

Has there been any large business more decimated by the rise of LLM's than SO? Traffic in the tags I follow there dropped off a cliff pretty much the same day that ChatGPT was first released.

chegg was destroyed

Makes me wonder which founders should be selling now...

Yeah, good timing. Just about a year before the release of ChatGPT.