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Quora is an American social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can post questions, answer questions, and comment on answers that have been submitted by other users.

AI overview

Quora is a website where people can ask questions and get answers from other users on a wide range of topics. Founded in 2009, it functions as an online community dedicated to sharing knowledge and information through user-submitted questions and responses.

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Key facts

Website.name
Quora, Inc.
Website.logo
Quora logo 2015.svg
Website.logo_size
250px
Website.screenshot
Quora screenshot.svg
Website.screenshot_size
260px
Website.caption
Screenshot of homepage
Website.location
Mountain View, California, United States
Website.founder
Adam D'AngeloCharlie Cheever
Website.programming_language
Python, C++
Website.registration
Optional
Website.language
24 languages
Website.company_type
Private
Website.key_people
Adam D'Angelo (CEO)Kelly Battles (CFO)
Website.num_employees
200–300 (2019)
Website.revenue
US$20 million (2018)
Website.area_served
Worldwide
Website.website_type
Question and answer
Website.current_status
Active

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Encyclopedic overview

32 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Founding and naming
  • 2010–2013: Early growth
  • 2014–2017: Continued growth and new features
  • 2014 organization
  • Parlio acquisition
  • Question details
  • Advertisement rollouts
  • Multilingual expansion
  • 2017 anonymity changes
  • 2017 Series D funding
  • 2018–2019: Further growth and data breach
  • 2020
  • 2021
  • Operation
  • Website
  • Real name policy
  • Answer recommendations
  • Home feed question recommendations
  • Daily digest
  • Related questions
  • Requested answers
  • Top Writers Program
  • Poe
  • Reception
  • Reviews
  • Criticism from users
  • Use in influence operations
  • Timeline
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Quora is an American social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can post questions, answer questions, and comment on answers that have been submitted by other users.

As of 2020, the website was visited by 300million users a month. Since its founding by former Facebook employees, the company has grown to a valuation of approximately $2 billion and expanded into the artificial intelligence sector with the 2023 launch of its chatbot platform, Poe.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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