Words matter. These are the best Adam D’Angelo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
The area we define as what Quora’s good at is long-form text that’s useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they’re someone trustworthy.
Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn’t ideal.
I’ve really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It’s really nice to have a new start to things.
I have a view that if you build something that’s good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it’s the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it’s only a year, but not like a tweet, where it’s only relevant for a day or a week.
Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
I think a lot of what the iPad app is going to be used for is just reading the best content on Quora. It really helps the whole system run because people who are writing answers can get this very wide distribution to a large audience of readers.
When you look at Yahoo Answers, there can be a lot of garbage. But if you’re careful about the rules and supporting good contributions, over time you can get better and better, like Wikipedia.
We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it’s too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.
We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it’s going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don’t need to exclude anyone.
In the past, there hasn’t been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It’s information that’s really valuable, and it’s information that people want to share.
You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.
