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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides. - Adam D'Angelo
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You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization. - 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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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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Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following. - Adam D'Angelo
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything. - Adam D'Angelo
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I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts. - Adam D'Angelo
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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. - Adam D'Angelo
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More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it. - Adam D'Angelo
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