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What’s interesting to me is that someone looked at Quora and thought “I want the guy behind that on my board”.
by seanhunter 3y ago
What’s interesting to me is that someone looked at Quora and thought “I want the guy behind that on my board”.
- bambax 3y agoAgreed! Yet in 2014 Sam Altman accepted Quora into one of YC's batches, saying [0] > Adam D’Angelo is awesome, and we’re big Quora fans [0] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch
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- djsavvy 3y agoTo be fair, back then it was pretty awesome IMO. I spent a lot of hours scrolling Quora in those days. It wasn’t until at least 2016 that the user experience became unpalatable if memory serves correctly.
- singularity2001 3y agoit's probably more like they thought "I want Quoras money" and D'angelo wanted their control
- motoxpro 3y agoI was thinking the same thing. This whole thing is surprising and then I look at Quora and think "Eh, makes sense that the CEO is completely incompetent and money hungry" Even as I type that, when people talk about the board being altruistic and holding to the Open AI charter, how in the world can you be that user hostile, profit focused, and incompetent at your day job (Quora CEO) and then say "Oh no, but on this board I am an absolute saint and will do everything to benefit humanity"