Adam D Angelo Quotes

A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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.
Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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.
I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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.
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.
I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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.
In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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.
Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
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.
On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
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.
Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
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.
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.
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