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Let's not kid ourselves. Any morning we will wake up to the headline "Quora acquired by Facebook."
Since then, Facebook has come out with Facebook Questions.
I am surprised by the fact that arrington allowed an article that criticizes tehcrunch for being hype machine (which it is). Regarding quora, yes it gets too much techcrunch attention but it is not as flawed as the writer thinks, quora generates quality content thanks to its quality users, while quality may start to decline as number of users grows(something that happens to almost all startups) it is possible to prev…
Agreed with you on the crappiness of Techcrunch. However it's a bit low calling someone out as an ex-alcoholic. Call him out on the quality and integrity of his articles by all means. But his alleged alcoholism - true or otherwise - is nobody's business but his and his family's.
Let's not kid ourselves. Any morning we will wake up to the headline "Quora acquired by Facebook."
It makes sense, until you realize that Facebook does "Talent acquisitions" basically, i.e. with drop.io, friendster, etc. He thinks highly of Adam for sure, but Adam also left Facebook to found Quora. I don't think Adam would want to be bought back by Facebook and actually stay there for any significant period of time. Plus, there's Facebook Questions... (Of course, the quality of the questions/answers is certainly d…
For the right amount of money, he could stay for 3 years, the avg post-acquisition lock-in period. It'd be a win-win for all: the next three years are super critical for fb and if they can lock-in a guy like Adam, it'll be well worth the acquisition.
Let's not kid ourselves. Any morning we will wake up to the headline "Quora acquired by Facebook."
I don't think this will happen. Adam left because he was marginalized by Zuck and replaced by Bret Taylor as CTO. Since then, Facebook has come out with Facebook Questions.
He'll get a new vesting clock with the acquisition and all will be good.
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I don't think this will happen. Adam left because he was marginalized by Zuck and replaced by Bret Taylor as CTO. Since then, Facebook has come out with Facebook Questions.
Adam will return because it will be financially rewarding. Notice even when he left, he only did so after he had fully vested. He'll get a new vesting clock with the acquisition and all will be good.
As the site grows, the density of interesting people will drop and the noise will increase, getting worse the more mainstream it gets. Eventually it will be a slow Yahoo answers.
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Adam will return because it will be financially rewarding. Notice even when he left, he only did so after he had fully vested. He'll get a new vesting clock with the acquisition and all will be good.
If Zuck thought Adam was valuable, he would have given him an incentive to stay instead of replacing his position with a newcomer and putting him in a position where he would likely leave the company.
Clearly we don't know if he did. But what we do know is that guys like Adam, Paul Buchteit etc. just want to go do their own thing after a while. And we also know the tendency of founders to sell their co back to their original employer or a close competitor.
Something no one else has mentioned yet (perhaps for fear of plunging down the meta discussion rabbit hole) is the degree to which HN competes with Quora. As a small experiment, I'd previously posed roughly the same question to both HN and Quora. http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-optimum-pricing-strategy-fo... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097527 The response from HN absolutely destroyed the response from Quora…
That said, Quora could end up being a slightly better Yahoo Answers which is actually a net plus for the world, considering the sad and depressing state of Yahoo Answers.
Let's not kid ourselves. Any morning we will wake up to the headline "Quora acquired by Facebook."
I don't think this will happen. Adam left because he was marginalized by Zuck and replaced by Bret Taylor as CTO. Since then, Facebook has come out with Facebook Questions.
Something no one else has mentioned yet (perhaps for fear of plunging down the meta discussion rabbit hole) is the degree to which HN competes with Quora. As a small experiment, I'd previously posed roughly the same question to both HN and Quora. http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-optimum-pricing-strategy-fo... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2097527 The response from HN absolutely destroyed the response from Quora…
There are things I'd rather ask about on HN, and the same applies to Quora.