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#83-A Brief History of Quora

Quora is a Q&A platform headquartered in Mountain View, California with a Global Alexa Rank 127 & US Alexa Rank 69. The website quora.com has an estimated net worth of $973 M. The stated mission of Quora is "to share and grow the world’s knowledge". The site is a favorite of millions of people who love to know more about topics of their interest. On Quora, people engage in Q&A and the entire process is moderated by Quora to ensure the platform does not lose its dignity and become just another Q&A site full of boring questions and even more boring answers. Let's have a look at how Quora started its journey and how it made through the strenuous first few years.

2009. In June, Adam D'Angelo & Charlie Cheever started Quora. Before starting Quora, Adam D'Angelo was the CTO in Facebook. Adam D'Angelo left Facebook in January, 2010, to fully focus on Quora.

2010. In March, Quora raised $11 M in Series A funding led by Benchmark. In June, Quora was launched for the public. The platform was different from others of its kind because of one simple reason, the people who answered questions there. Quora was a platform where the top brass of tech, most influential venture capitalists, and elite artists loved to share their expertise with the common people. Business Insider reports discussions on Quora played a pivotal role in the acquisition of Nextstop by Facebook. In September, Quora was featured by CNN Money in its list of new ventures from former Facebook employees.

2011. In January, Quora touched 500 K registered users milestone. In June, Quora redesigned its user interface to attract more users. Topic pages were redesigned and Topic groups were introduced. In September, Quora's official iPhone app was launched on iTunes. The app received a warm welcome from iPhone users worldwide. Through the app's "nearby" feature the users had the ability to find location-filtered questions. The app has a current version rating of 4.0 and all version rating of 4.5.

2012. In May, the company raised $50 M in Series B funding. In September, Quora launched its official Android app on Google Play with a few more extra features than its iPhone counterpart, voice search, for instance. The app currently has over 1 M downloads and 137 K five-stars on Google Play. The app has a rating of  4.5. The Kindle Fire app was launched around the same time. Charlie Cheever left his day-to-day role at Quora, remaining as an advisor.

2013. In January, Quora launched an associated blogging platform for registered users in an attempt to expand its reach beyond high-quality questions and answers. In March, in an attempt to make the content search process more comfortable, Quora launched full-text content search feature. This feature was extended to iOS & Android in May. In November, it introduced stats feature to encourage user engagement.

2014. In April, Quora raised $80 M in Series C funding round. The funding round was led by Tiger Global, an international private equity investor based in NYC.

2015. In February, Quora introduced search filters to improve content discovery. In May, Quora introduced question merging recognizing the inconveniences caused by a massive number of duplicate questions. 

2016. Quora acquired Parlio in March. This was Quora's first acquisition. In April, Quora announced "an experimental pilot of third-party ads." In October, the Spanish version of Quora was launched for the public, which was invite-only in the beginning.

It is going to be interesting to see how the question-answer platform evolves in the future as more and more people start using Quora to enrich and share their knowledge.


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