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 biggapgeneral share on social
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. Adam D'Angelo answerbasebuild Change image and share on social
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. Adam D'Angelo easygiveknowledge Change image and share on social
In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games. Adam D'Angelo asiafacebookfull Change image and share on social
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. Adam D'Angelo casefindgoogle Change image and share on social
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. Adam D'Angelo answerappaudience share on social
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information. Adam D'Angelo bookgenerallyimmerse Change image and share on social
When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read. Adam D'Angelo digestemailend share on social
Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything. Adam D'Angelo contributeextremegroup Change image and share on social
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. Adam D'Angelo automaticallybuildchallenge Change image and share on social
