Guest author Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. This will be the first in a series of essays on Quora that he will post on TechCrunch.

Quora sprang from the minds of Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, two young IT geniuses who met, like so many industry up-and-comers, working at Facebook. D'Angelo started there out of Caltech in 2006 ...

What is Quora? Good question. There are lots of people on Quora waiting to provide you with answers, discuss and then debate it all. It’s fun, simple and global. But more importantly, why is this new ...

Quora has plenty to learn from Y Combinator but it’s not giving up the traditional 7% equity share to join the accelerator. Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo tells me “YC invested an amount that was similar to ...

How does Quora use machine learning in 2017? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer by ...

Quora, the fast-growing question and answer site, has become increasingly popular among journalists. In a phone interview, Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo attributed the site’s recent growth to an ...

Quora is a surprisingly useful place to find interesting answers to all sorts of questions. Questions are organized in categories, so you can learn stuff about architecture or astrophysics, zoology or ...

Question time for web 2.0 answers... Quora? Are you talking about something from Star Trek again? Quora may sound pretty sci-fi but I can assure you it does not involve Klingons - although it can tell ...

Last night I had a random thought. Why do some people develop a passion for scaling dangerous peaks like the Mount Everest or K2 given the likelihood of not making it back alive? I Googled it. Guess ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is a little obsessed with Quora, the questions-and-answers site started by his high school pal (and former Facebook CTO) Adam D'Angelo. Zuckerberg brings it up in random ...