selected from one of the replies - this seems to be a better synopsis from the CEO himself. https://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-2014-Y-Co

selected from one of the replies - this seems to be a better synopsis from the CEO himself. https://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-2014-Y-Combinator-batch/answer/Adam-DAngelo?srid=Om6j&share=1 https://www.quora.com/Quora-company/Why-did-Quora-join-the-2... >There are a bunch of reasons why it's valuable for Quora to be a YC company: >We'll have Sam and all the other partners to help us. >We get to be part of the YC community / alumni network of founders. >We get access to all the resources of YC. >We were raising money anyway, so there was no overhead in letting YC participate - this ends up the same for us as if we had just raised slightly more money from Tiger. And independent of the benefits to Quora, I think it will be fun personally to participate in some of the YC events. I hope my perspective can help some of the other companies.