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Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by mb7733 »

vechagup wrote: post #41
baron816 wrote: post #37

I really hope we see some specialized remote worker residential communities in the future. Actually, I’m sure there’ll be money in building them. Imagine a small town with no cars or roads. The community has lots of events to socialize you with your neighbors. Lots of traditions and festivals. Some communities may look like Brooklyn—row houses, except just grass and trees lining the blocks. Maybe another community wo…

And perhaps when enough of these like-minded remote workers are living near each other, some of them will find that they enjoy working in the same physical location at the same time. Then some of the space in the community can be turned into hubs for in-person collaboration, or offices!

Not sure if you're being dismissive, but that still sounds great. It would lead to many small, livable communities with opportunity dotting the country. As opposed to everyone living in suburbs and and making long commutes to a small number of massive urban centers.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by jjeaff »

miked85 wrote: post #58

It really is amazing that Quora still exists. In the very early days it was interesting, now it just seems like Yahoo Answers 2.0.

I'm not particularly prophetic when it comes to how businesses play out, but I remember thinking that quora was a cool idea on a small scale but knew that it would turn to garbage as soon as it got popular.

For the entrepreneurs out there: Everything doesn't have to be social. Sometimes you can build a business around great, curated content and it can be beautiful.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by hoka »

aeternum wrote: post #69
ryanSrich wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm as big of a remote work supporter as you'll find. I'm often crucified for how anti-office I am. Having said that, a hybrid model is absolutely not remote work. It's not distributed. It's a nightmare. Every single person in the company, including executives, needs to be remote.

My company has made the hybrid model work. We've had a mix of fully remote along with two physical offices. It's really not all that complex, conference rooms have to have a video conference system that is added by default to all meetings. Ad-hoc meetings can start video with a single button press and a short code/url sent over slack. We strongly encourage employees to keep discussions in 'public' slack rooms rather…

And what is the breakdown of executives, managers, etc between on-prem and remote?

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by teej »

sk0g wrote: post #70
MattGaiser wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it any different from Stack Overflow or Yahoo Answers, except generalized and civilized?

About half the answers devolve into a sales pitch after a lengthy and confusing intro that seems to be written for SEO purposes only. The answers tend to be of substantially lower quality than what you'd see on SO too. Yahoo Answers might be similar, sure, but that's not a positive comparison.

Inevitable when you try to turn something small and good into a “venture scale business”.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by canttestthis »

starpilot wrote: post #66
adventured wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not self-funded by D'Angelo. Quora has raised several hundred million dollars, the overwhelming share of that from traditional venture capital firms. They also don't have the luxury of treating it like a hobby business, which is why they've been focused on quantity over quality for years now. They have to scale up the concept massively or find another business. In contrast WikiHow is an example of a successful k…

Wikihow is garbage though. How can you seriously claim it's focused on quality? What is this shit: https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/f/f5/Laugh-Step-6-Versi... ?

Why link to the image out of context? https://www.wikihow.com/Laugh

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by ByteJockey »

baron816 wrote: post #37

I really hope we see some specialized remote worker residential communities in the future. Actually, I’m sure there’ll be money in building them. Imagine a small town with no cars or roads. The community has lots of events to socialize you with your neighbors. Lots of traditions and festivals. Some communities may look like Brooklyn—row houses, except just grass and trees lining the blocks. Maybe another community wo…

How do you get supplies to the houses? Presumably you aren't going to want delivery vans driving over the nice grass.

Pneumatic tubes (not sarcastic)? What about when someone needs a new mattress?

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by herpderperator »

adventured wrote: post #52
ragona wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m guessing they’re referring to the fact that the CEO is very wealthy [1] and has self-funded the company, and suggesting that he’s not as concerned with the financials. 1: https://www.forbes.com/profile/adam-dangelo/#657861427cb4

It's not self-funded by D'Angelo. Quora has raised several hundred million dollars, the overwhelming share of that from traditional venture capital firms. They also don't have the luxury of treating it like a hobby business, which is why they've been focused on quantity over quality for years now. They have to scale up the concept massively or find another business. In contrast WikiHow is an example of a successful k…

> Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D’Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money [0]

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/14/quora-raises-50-at-400m-fr...

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by akajakaj »

edw wrote: post #59
jfengel wrote: post #48

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Yeah, it's pretty bad. Questions that they pay for are generally of poor quality. When you pay for something, people rush in to produce as much quantity as they can. Even if they are also attracting good ones, they can be hard to find in the onslaught.

My intuitive understanding of Quora, formed about five years ago, is that it’s a WikiHow with VC mojo.

It's most accurately described as a yahoo answers with generally higher quality answers and SEO.

Re: Quora goes permanently remote-first

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Post by jdbernard »

vechagup wrote: post #41
baron816 wrote: post #37

I really hope we see some specialized remote worker residential communities in the future. Actually, I’m sure there’ll be money in building them. Imagine a small town with no cars or roads. The community has lots of events to socialize you with your neighbors. Lots of traditions and festivals. Some communities may look like Brooklyn—row houses, except just grass and trees lining the blocks. Maybe another community wo…

And perhaps when enough of these like-minded remote workers are living near each other, some of them will find that they enjoy working in the same physical location at the same time. Then some of the space in the community can be turned into hubs for in-person collaboration, or offices!

Key difference is that in this model offices are built around the community, not the corporation. Seems likely to lead to very different results.
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