Adam D'Angelo Quotes
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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.
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There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
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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.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
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If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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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.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
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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.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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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.
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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.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.
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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.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.