The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it. Adam D'Angelo More Quotes by Adam D'Angelo More Quotes From 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. Adam D'Angelo focus decision long Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals. Adam D'Angelo goals questions you space I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information. Adam D'Angelo myself information reading knowledge 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 you work patience people Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything. Adam D'Angelo small everything group people We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there. Adam D'Angelo started just inviting friends 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 job look you perfect 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 place internet people knowledge We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet. Adam D'Angelo someone great internet people On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do. Adam D'Angelo nothing questions you want I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things. Adam D'Angelo new beginning start nice You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built. Adam D'Angelo better you team people 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 facebook some social games 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 high need quality challenges If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not. Adam D'Angelo job good you personality 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 you friends information past 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 end better experience people Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week. Adam D'Angelo day good you today 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 good you friends time I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts. Adam D'Angelo view better good you
