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Rising Cost of Facebook Infrastructure; CTO Resigns
Last month, I wrote about Facebook’s insatiable hunger for hardware. Over the weekend, Spencer Ante of Business Week reported that Palo Alto-based social networking company had raised about $100...
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How Quora Is Trying to Build an Ideal Society
Since launching Quora at the beginning of this year as a sort of thinking person’s Yahoo Answers, former Facebook employees Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo have increased their staff to 11, raised...
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Quora gets $50 million. Q: Why? A: Because it can…
Quora co-founders Charlie Cheever & Adam D’Angelo @ Crunchies 2010 Quora, a Palo Alto-based knowledge (read: Q&A) community has raised a whopping $50 million in Series B funding from co-founder...
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Can Quora build a for-profit version of Wikipedia?
The “crowdsourced” question-and-answer site Quora raised more than a few eyebrows on Monday when it closed a new $50-million round of financing that values the fledgling company at $400 million,...
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Co-founder Charlie Cheever to take reduced role at Quora
Charlie Cheever, one of the original co-founders of Quora, will take a reduced role in the company and “step away from his day-to-day role,” CEO and co-founder Adam D’Angelo noted in a post on the site...
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My conversation with ex-Facebook CTO and Quora co-founder Adam D’Angelo
To say that I have had a contentious relationship with former Facebook chief technology officer Adam D’Angelo’s three-year-old startup Quora would be an understatement. I’ve had my reasons for...
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Quora gets into the publishing business with new blogging platform
Newspapers might be dying, but there is no shortage of companies who want to get into the publishing business. Or the blogging business, at least. Quora plans to announce Wednesday that it’s rolling...
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Is Quora’s quest for growth worth alienating key users?
It’s a scene that often plays out in tech, but still causes a firestorm every time: A tiny, beloved, early-adopter startup gets some traction and funding, and suddenly it has to grow up and add more...
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Uber, Data Darwinism and the future of work
A year ago, I hosted a small conclave of fellow (early) explorers of the post-html Internet. And while we are not of the SnapChat generation, most of us grew up connected. There were some who helped...
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