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Quora
Sign in to saveQuora 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.
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- online community
- Named after
- quorum
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Charlie Cheever
- Headquarters
- Mountain View
- Industry
- knowledge base
- Employees
- 200
- Legal form
- privately held company
- Official website
- www.quora.com
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- official jobs URL
- www.quora.com/careers
- language of work or name
- Japanese
- programmed in
- Python
- Commons category
- Quora
- Alexa rank
- 128
- inception
- 2010-06-21
- search formatter URL
- www.quora.com/search?q=$1
- terms of service URL
- www.quora.com/about/tos
- street address
- 650 Castro Street, Suite 450, Mountain View, California 94041, United States
- social media followers
- 8400
- Similarweb ranking
- 42
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Encyclopedic overview
32 sectionsContents
- 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.
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