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Sid explicitly says he expects we (Quora) avoided the pitfalls of hybrid companies in this comment: https://www.quora.com/q/quora/Remote-First-at-Quora/comment/...

At Quora we decided not to have a higher "minimum service period" aside from the standard 1 year cliff. The rationale is that the vesting cliff is what everyone is expecting as the…

We were the first startup to use 10 year exercise periods, which started this trend. I wrote a long response to this here: https://dangelo.quora.com/10-Year-Exercise-Periods-Make-S…

http://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-sell-its-product-to-ot...

The truncation was a bug that was fixed. Sorry about that.

FWIW the "spawn pop ups whenever you click anywhere on the page" was a bug that was fixed.

The unusual number of complaints on this thread were actually because of a bug causing a bad experience. This was our fault and it has been fixed. We don't mind the change of link …

We don't care about signup counts, only about real engagement. Most people have no problem with registering, and the engagement from logged in users is so much higher that it more …

We serve the same content to Google that we serve to users. We have no interest in deceiving them.

The copy/paste issue on iOS is a bug, and should be fixed within the next week. Sorry about that. We want people to copy and share content out of Quora far and wide, which is why o…

There is a clear one-click unsubscribe link at the bottom of every single email we send, and there always has been. It says: "To disable all email from Quora, visit the following l…

You say our motivation is "to force users to pay or share advertising data or some such bullshit". Actually, we don't charge users anything, and we don't run ads or sell user data …

Thanks for including us!

Maybe the postgres supporters can fill this in about Postgres reliability: http://www.quora.com/How-reliable-is-Postgres-replication that's one of the biggest issues scaring people…

The built-in MySQL schemas have problems - mostly that schema changes can take hours or days on large tables. As a result of this you need to build a system that doesn't require sc…

It's an answer to a question that someone else posted. I wouldn't have written it otherwise.

You're right that it's ok to repost Quora content anywhere as long as it includes a link - more details here: http://www.quora.com/How-can-material-on-Quora-be-reused-els...

Why did Google Checkout fail? http://www.quora.com/q/Why_did_Google_Checkout_fail What are some good reasons to take a technology company public? http://www.quora.com/q/What_are_so…