"With great content, search traffic will follow, and then there will be some way to monetize."
I went through the first dot.com bubble - and I heard a lot of sentences like that. Not saying that Quora isn't valuable, or that it isn't possible to monetize, but the whole build-traffic-and-we'll-figure-it-out-later gives me 'Nam flashbacks.
I used to do a lot at Quora - but the more I thought about it, the more I figured that not getting paid for giving up my knowledge was a bad idea. I find it most useful for discussions/information on start-ups.
All being said, they have a lot of talented people working there and a lot of great data - someone will buy them if they can't figure out how to make it work financially.
I went through the first dot.com bubble - and I heard a lot of sentences like that. Not saying that Quora isn't valuable, or that it isn't possible to monetize, but the whole build-traffic-and-we'll-figure-it-out-later gives me 'Nam flashbacks.
I used to do a lot at Quora - but the more I thought about it, the more I figured that not getting paid for giving up my knowledge was a bad idea. I find it most useful for discussions/information on start-ups.
All being said, they have a lot of talented people working there and a lot of great data - someone will buy them if they can't figure out how to make it work financially.