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Ask HN: Did Quora benefit from Yc batch?
Was just curious that Quora was in last Yc batch. How did that help them? any significant achievements? was it as per their expectations.
- phantom_oracle 12y agoIt's weird how this has gotten so many thumbs up but nobody has discussed yet. IMO, it was strategically a bad move or a "dead" move on their part. The value-add was insignificant for a company supposedly worth 1 billion dollars a few years ago. Quora isn't dead and certainly has value (when bypassing their user-signup wall), but it is now basically in limbo. Neither Yahoo Answers nor StackOverFlow after it were worth billions, so all the hype around it was just VCs taking a big risk. If it did help them, they'd have a little more press by now. After getting into that batch though, nobody hears much about it anymore and I suspect another upstart will usurp Quora at the top of the Q&A market in the future (if SO hasn't done so already).
- priteshjain 12y agoI was actually surprised no one asked this for so long.
- KathrynShantz1 12y agoMaybe they're looking to hone their business model?
- priteshjain 12y agoMaybe, but even that was the case. i wanted to know did they get any concrete results? what were they. just a case study.