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Adam D'Angelo Quotes
Adam D'Angelo
American
Businessman
Build
Good
Internet
Knowledge
People
You
A lot of people really like to answer questions, and they really enjoy sharing their knowledge. Especially people who have valuable knowledge.
Adam D'Angelo
Knowledge
People
Valuable
Enjoy
Sharing
Like
Answer
Lot
Questions
Really
Who
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Adam D'Angelo
Myself
Knowledge
Reading
Books
Generally
Like
Reading Books
Just
Information
Really
Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.
Adam D'Angelo
You
Goals
Space
Big
Possible
Systems
Answers
Lots
Questions
Different
Create
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.
Adam D'Angelo
News
Experience
People
Better
Digest
Emails
Ranking
Log
Find
Some
More
Feed
Stuff
Read
Provide
Lot
End
Up
Get
Send
Want
Them
Personalized
Show
Using
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
Adam D'Angelo
Knowledge
World
Internet
Long
Practice
Difficult
Too
Web
Allow
No-One
Share
Takes
Almost
Supposed
Does
Up
Anyone
Page
Set
We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.
Adam D'Angelo
Our
Invited
Inviting
Off
Friends
Just
Grew
Then
Use
Started
Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.
Adam D'Angelo
Today
Good
Day
You
People
Internet
Year
Month
Definitive
Relevant
Something
Only
Week
Write
Written
Stuff
Like
Look
Most
Answer
Years
Maybe
Where
Really
Next
Tweet
Last
In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
Adam D'Angelo
People
Valuable
Past
Startups
Reliable
About
Online
Small
Small Businesses
Share
Been
Want
In The Past
Information
Available
Much
Really
Businesses
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.
Adam D'Angelo
Focus
Long
Everyone
Outlast
Long-Term
Term
Make
Always
Short-Term
Decisions
Company
Grow
Right
I have a view that if you build something that's good, and you keep making it better, it lasts.
Adam D'Angelo
Good
You
Better
Build
Lasts
Something
Making
View
Keep
More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
Adam D'Angelo
Knowledge
People
Internet
More
Only
Than
Contribute
Tiny
Use
Billion
Fraction
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.
Adam D'Angelo
You
Job
Websites
Google
Find
Web
Cases
Something
Perfect
Ideal
Know
Look
Lot
List
Want
Page