Quora

Quora, Inc.
Screenshot of homepage
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
Question and answer
Available inArabic, Marathi, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu[1]
FoundedJune 25, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-06-25)
HeadquartersMountain View, California, U.S.
Area servedWorldwide
Founder(s)Adam D'Angelo
Charlie Cheever
Key peopleAdam D'Angelo (CEO)
Kelly Battles (CFO)[2]
RevenueUS$20 million (2018)[3]
Employees200–300 (2019)[3]
URLwww.quora.com
RegistrationYes
LaunchedJune 21, 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-21)
Current statusActive
Written inPython, C++[4]

Quora is a social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009,[5] and made available to the public on June 21, 2010.[6] Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that have been submitted by other users.[7] As of 2020, the website was visited by 300 million users a month.[8]

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