Were you close enough to share the same limo for prom?Īhh…we went to boarding school. You and Mark Zuckerberg are friends from High School. It’s the same reason someone might want to make a website with information. You’re answering questions because you want to build your reputation or you genuinely, intrinsically enjoy helping people. On Quora, you’re not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do. I think the motivation is a lot different. So the value of writing a lengthy, well-thought out answer is.what? How will you this keep from turning into another Yahoo! Answers? 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. We’re not just interested in people answering their friends’ one-off questions. Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. I think we’re a lot different than something like that. Now that we have some really valuable content on Quora, the content is attracting people too.Īnswering friends’ questions makes Quora seem a lot like Google’s Aardvark. We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there. So the site naturally selects for high quality people. Especially people who have valuable knowledge. We’ll definitely think about things like that in the future.Īs you scale, how are you going to keep smart, educated people answering questions?Ī lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. For now, we’re just trying to get a lot of high-quality knowledge onto Quora. We’re not really focused on people promoting themselves, yet. Does Quora have a feature where they can promote themselves? Or are small businesses only able to extract advice? Say you’re a small business, like a restaurant. So, it’s been one of the areas on Quora that has taken off the fastest. It’s information that’s really valuable and it’s information that people want to share.
In the past, there hasn’t been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there’s just been this gap. There’s a lot of information that has been in peoples’ heads and hasn’t gotten onto the Internet. Tell me about your startup and how small businesses can benefit from Quora.
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