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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.
Adam D'Angelo
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A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
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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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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.
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On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
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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've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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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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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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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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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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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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