Ask HN: Did Quora benefit from Yc batch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9258292

by priteshjain • 11 years ago

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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• 11 years ago

It'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).

priteshjain2• 11 years ago

I was actually surprised no one asked this for so long.

KathrynShantz1• 11 years ago

Maybe they're looking to hone their business model?

priteshjain2• 11 years ago

Maybe, but even that was the case. i wanted to know did they get any concrete results? what were they. just a case study.

Ask HN: Did Quora benefit from Yc batch?

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