33 Quotes by Adam D'Angelo

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

Wikipedia is kind of extreme, where a very, very small group of people contribute pretty much everything.

Blogs are easy to start, but unless the author is famous, it takes years to build a following.

There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.

I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.

We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.