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>Founded in 2009 by former Facebook engineers, Quora is a revenue-less, question-and-answer service with 500,000 topics and an unknown number of users. >Quora
by zxcvvcxz 13y ago
>Founded in 2009 by former Facebook engineers, Quora is a revenue-less, question-and-answer service with 500,000 topics and an unknown number of users.
>Quora has now collected more than $140 million in funding from investors.
How could this possibly end well for the investors?
EDIT - besides a FB acquisition.
- rezistik 13y agoApparently they admit they have no revenue source and as such going public doesn't make sense. Maybe they are aiming to be more like Wikipedia than Yahoo?
- sireat 13y agoNo, it is brilliant (in the SV way) that they have no revenue. The sky is the limit and you can get funded for pretty much any amount. Seriously, if they had been actually monetizing, they would not be able to collect the funding. There was that photo site a few months back which closed much discussed on HN. The problem with them was that they actually tried to make money and thus VCs could see that they would not be the big hit needed. I am only half-kidding with this.