Adam D'Angelo

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. ”

In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games. ”

Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals. ”

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. ”

More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it. ”

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. ”

A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge. ”

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information. ”

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. ”

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. ”