In 2018, Quora's reported $8 million on revenue.
Timeline
April 21, 2017
After eight years carefully cultivating an intelligent question and answer community, it's just raised an $85 million Series D round co-led by Collaborative Fund and Y Combinator's Continuity Fund.
Quora launched in Spanish last year to collect questions and answers natively written in that tongue.
Funding rounds
Funding round
Funding type
Funding round amount (USD)
Funding round date
Investment
85,000,000
April 21, 2017
50,000,000
May 14, 2012
80,000,000
April 9, 2014
11,000,000
March 28, 2010
People
Name
Role
LinkedIn
Adam D’Angelo
Founder
Abhishek Ray
Employee
Adrien Ecoffet
Employee
Benjamin Ling
Investor
Charlie Cheever
Founder
Chau H. Tran
Employee
Christine Higgins
Employee
Court Showerman
Employee
Dave Morin
Investor
David Cole
Employee
David Sacks
Investor
Diana Tan
Employee
Don van der Drift
Employee
Eric Kolovson
Employee
Holly Gressley
Employee
Jackson Mohsenin
Employee
Jared Morgenstern
Investor
Jay Wacker
Employee
Jeff Hammerbacher
Investor
Jeremy Stoppelman
Investor
Jonathan Heiliger
Investor
Josh Hannah
Investor
Kah Hong Tay
Employee
Keith Rabois
Investor
Kelly Li
Employee
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David Streitfeld
June 29, 2020
www.nytimes.com
As the coronavirus keeps spreading, employers are convinced remote work has a bright future. Decades of setbacks suggest otherwise.
Lucas Matney
January 23, 2020
TechCrunch
Quora, a ten-year-old question-and-answer startup based in Mountain View, is laying off staff in its Bay Area and New York offices, the company's CEO announced on the site today. Like other startup leaders being pushed by investors to focus more heavily on cashflow, CEO Adam D'Angelo wrote that the layoffs and "organizational changes" were being [...]
December 17, 2019
The Economic Times
Launched in English in 2010, the platform has grown to reach more than 300 million unique visitors per month, according to the company. It is now available in a total of 24 languages. More than half of Quoras visitors come from outside of the United States, said the company.
Press Trust of India
November 18, 2019
@bsindia
Read more about Build real-time speech translation to reduce language barriers: Govt to cos on Business Standard. Citing a study, Sawhney said that 0.055 per cent of websites were found with content in Hindi and next Indian language which comes closer in Bengali.
November 15, 2019
The Economic Times
Quora said India is one of its fastest growing markets with over 70 million monthly unique visitors in English. Quora is also currently available in Hindi, Bengali, Marathi and Tamil, and will soon be available in Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu.
Virginia Heffernan
September 24, 2019
Wired
Ask not where you rank on the intellectual leaderboard, but what you want from your mind.
Lucas Matney
September 18, 2019
TechCrunch
There are apps out there that help you find friends, find dates and find your distant family histories, but when it comes to "growing your professional network," the options are shockingly bad, we're talking LinkedIn here. LunchClub is a startup that's looking to help users navigate finding new connections inside specific industries. The company has [...]
RAYMOND ZHONG
December 4, 2018
www.nytimes.com
Some users seemed less surprised by the security breach than by the fact that they had a Quora account in the first place.
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Company attributes
Company status
Active
B2X
Founder
Crunchbase
Legal name
Quora, Inc.
Legal classification
Founded date
June 21, 2010
Total funding amount (USD)
311,000,000
Business model
Advertising
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Founder and CEO of Golden, Entrepreneur. Investor in 200+ companies. Cantabrigian (Gonville and Caius). Interested in the universe. - 6
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A graduate of Cleveland State University with a Bachelor of Science in Education. My main hobbies include story writing and reading. - 7
Dawson Sewell
Seeking to explain science and technology through simple writing. - 8
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Golden researcher based in Chicago, IL.
