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Quora is a Mountain View-based question-and-answer platform where users ask and answer questions on virtually any topic, and the company behind Poe, a platform for accessing multiple AI chatbots.
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Quora was founded in 2009 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, both former Facebook executives, building a question-and-answer platform that let users ask questions on virtually any topic and receive answers from other users, with a particular early emphasis on attracting genuine subject matter experts and notable figures to contribute substantive, high-quality answers rather than the more anonymous, often lower-quality contributions common on some earlier internet forums and question-and-answer sites, an approach that helped Quora build a reputation for hosting thoughtful, often surprisingly in-depth answers across an enormously wide range of topics from users with genuine relevant expertise or experience. Quora's platform has grown into one of the most widely visited question-and-answer websites globally (per publicly available web traffic data), covering an extremely broad range of topics spanning technical subjects, personal advice, current events commentary, and countless other subject areas, monetizing primarily through digital advertising displayed alongside its content, a model that has depended significantly on Quora's substantial organic search engine traffic, since many Quora question-and-answer pages rank prominently in search results for a very wide range of specific queries given the platform's large content library covering such a broad range of topics in reasonable depth. In more recent years, Quora, under founder and CEO Adam D'Angelo, who also serves on OpenAI's board of directors, has launched Poe, a separate platform that lets users access and converse with a variety of different AI chatbots from multiple AI providers, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, all through a single unified interface and subscription, positioning Poe as a platform-agnostic way for consumers to access and compare different AI assistants rather than being limited to only one AI provider's chatbot product. This move into AI chatbot aggregation represents a significant strategic evolution for Quora, applying its original mission of connecting people with knowledge and expertise to the new context of AI-generated responses and multiple competing AI model providers. Quora has raised substantial venture funding over its history from investors including Y Combinator, Benchmark, and Tiger Global, reaching a valuation exceeding $2 billion.
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