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- Network connections? Their CEO is the former CTO of Facebook.
- Help with fundraising? They raised $80mm at $900mm valuation not more than a month ago.
I strongly suspect Quora is planning a huge pivot which they feel is ambitious but doable in 3 months, and YC believes in the value of this pivot; that is the only plausible explanation I can think of.
I wonder if Quora actually applied, or if the idea was generated outside of the application process. I'm also pretty curious what the terms of the deal are (although I don't expect to actually get those details) with the new standard funding package.
Wow, what a great experiment. How can Quora employees get involved? What percentage of the company does YC get? Did you even make an investment? Given their huge fundraising and valuation, getting even 1% and giving them around $100K both seem odd.
I guess Quora will be treated the same as other batch's participants (except I wonder how many of Quora's employee will be physically in SV), but Quora got different deal.
Keep a link to this for the initial office hours ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503910
Googled something, Quora near top results, clicked link, "signup" nag screen, results blurred out, left page.
I guess I still don't get it. Curious to see what this will be about.
Quora at Summer 2014 Demo Day could be really interesting.