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|{{dts2009 |2009|06}}June ||Product||Quora founded

|{{dts2010 |2010|03}}March ||Funding|| Quora raises $11 million in a series A, with [[wikipedia:Benchmark Capital|Benchmark Capital]] as an investor<ref name="MyUser_Https:_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quora |title=Quora |newspaper=Https: |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2010 |2010|06}}June ||Product|| Quora announces that it will open up to the public<ref name="MyUser_Cnet.com_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.cnet.com/news/q-a-search-site-quora-opens-to-everyone/ |title=Q&A search site Quora opens to the public|work=CNET|accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2011 |2011|01}}January ||Team|| [[wikipedia:Marc Bodnick|Marc Bodnick]] leaves [[wikipedia:Elevation Partners|Elevation Partners]] to join Quora<ref name="MyUser_Businessinsider.com_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-bodnick-quora-2011-1 |title=Meet Quora's New Grown-Up: Elevation Partners' Marc Bodnick|work=Business Insider|accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2011 |2011|02}}February ||Technology|| Quora chooses C++ over C for its high performance services<ref name="services1">{{cite web |url=https://www.quora.com/Why-did-Quora-choose-C-over-C-for-its-high-performance-services |title=Why did Quora choose C++ over C for its high performance services? - Quora |newspaper=Quora.com |accessdate= February 12, 2011}}</ref>

|{{dts2011 |2011|07}}July ||Product||Quora introduces video to its Q&A pages<ref name="TC_Video">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/11/quora-adds-video-to-its-qa-pages/ |title=Quora Adds Video To Its Q&A Pages |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2011 |2011|07}}July ||Product||Quora introduces Credits for asking-to-answer questions<ref name="TCJuly2011">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/27/quora-testing-user-credits-for-ask-to-answer-questions/ |title=Quora Testing User Credits For "Ask To Answer" Questions |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2011 |2011|09}}September ||Product||Quora introduces threaded comments and comment voting<ref name="TCSeptember2011">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/26/quora-gets-threaded-comments-comment-voting-editing-and-images/ |title=Quora Gets Threaded Comments, Comment Voting, Editing And Images |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2012 |2012|05}}May ||Funding|| Quora raises $50 million in a series B, with [[wikipedia:Peter Thiel|Peter Thiel]] and [[wikipedia:Adam D'Angelo|Adam D'Angelo]] as investors<ref name="MyUser_Https:_July_1_2015c" />

|{{dts2012 |2012|09}}September ||Team||Co-founder [[wikipedia:Charlie Cheever|Charlie Cheever]] leaves<ref name="MyUser_Forbes_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/limyunghui/2012/09/12/co-founder-charlie-cheever-leaves-and-quora-is-curve-jumping/ |title=Co-Founder Charlie Cheever Leaves And Quora Is Curve Jumping |newspaper=Forbes |date= September 12, 2012 |last=Yung-Hui|first=Lim|accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2012 |2012|11}}November ||Product||| Quora introduces Top Writers program<ref name="MyUser_Fastcompany.com_July_1_2015c">{{cite web |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/3002541/quora-introduces-new-top-writers-program-hat-tip-its-most-valuable-contributors |title=Quora Introduces A New Top Writers Program As A Hat Tip To Its Most Valuable Contributors |newspaper=Fastcompany.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2013 |2013|01}}January ||Product || Quora introduces blogs<ref name="blogging">{{cite web|url=http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/quora-launches-blogging-platform-with-mobile-text-editor-to-give-every-author-a-built-in-audience/|title= Quora Launches Blogging Platform With Mobile Text Editor To Give Every Author A Built-In Audience|publisher= ''[[wikipedia:TechCrunch|TechCrunch]]''|date= January 23, 2013|accessdate= February 1, 2013|last= Constine|first= Josh}}</ref>

|{{dts2013 |2013|03}}March ||Product || Quora introduces a policy eliminating image-only answers.<ref name="MyUser_Https:_October_10_2016c">{{cite web |url=https://www.quora.com/What-is-your-favorite-Quora-policy-or-new-feature-What-Quora-feature-s-should-be-improved-or-eliminated |title=What is your favorite Quora policy or new feature? What Quora feature(s) should be improved or eliminated? - Quora |newspaper=Https: |date= |author= |accessdate= October 10, 2016}}</ref>

|{{dts2014 |2014|04}}April ||Funding|| Quora raises $80 million in a series C at $900 million valuation, with [[wikipedia:Tiger Global Management|Tiger Global Management]] and [[wikipedia:Y Combinator (company)|Y Combinator]] as investors<ref name="MyUser_Https:_July_1_2015c" /><ref name="TC2">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/09/quora-forever/ |title=Quora Wants To Stay Independent, Raises $80M Series C From Tiger Global At ~$900M Valuation |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= July 1, 2015}}</ref>

|{{dts2016 |2016|01}}January 27 ||Product|| Quora announces a bounty system, offering financial bounties for the best answer (selected by the question asker) on select questions.<ref name="MyUser_Techcrunch.com_April_27_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/27/quora-80-million-users/ |title=Quora Turns 80M Visitors Into Q&A Bounty Hunters With Knowledge Prizes |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= April 27, 2016}}</ref>

|{{dts2016 |2016|03}}March 30 ||ProductAcquisitions || Quora acquires [[wikipedia:Parlio|Parlio]], an online Q&A site started by [[wikipedia:Wael Ghonim|Wael Ghonim]].<ref name="TCParlio">{{cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/30/quora-parlio/ |title=Quora's first acquisition is Arab Spring instigator's Q&A site Parlio |newspaper=Techcrunch.com |accessdate= April 27, 2016}}</ref>

|{{dts2016 |2016|04}}April 20 ||ProductAdvertising || Quora announces that it will start out testing advertisements, on a small number of question pages.<ref name="MyUser_Venturebeat.com_April_27_2016c">{{cite web |url=http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/19/quora-begins-testing-ads-on-small-number-of-question-pages/ |title=Quora begins testing ads on 'small number' of question pages |newspaper=Venturebeat.com |accessdate= April 27, 2016}}</ref>

|{{dts2016 |2016|05}}May 26 ||Team|| [[wikipedia:Marc Bodnick|Marc Bodnick]], Quora's public face and leader of its business and moderation team, announces that he is leaving the company.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/marc-bodnick/|title = Quora loses its public face, Marc Bodnick|date = May 26, 2016|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = TechCrunch|last = Constine|first = Josh}}</ref>

|{{dts2016 |2016|08}}August ||Product|| Quora announces support for the [[wikipedia:Spanish language|Spanish language]].<ref name="Expanding Quora Beyond English Into Spanish">{{cite web |url=https://blog.quora.com/Expanding-Quora-Beyond-English-Into-Spanish |title=Expanding Quora Beyond English Into Spanish |accessdate=August 2, 2016}}</ref>

|{{dts2016 |2016|11}}November ||Team|| [[wikipedia:Kelly Battles|Kelly Battles]] announced as new [[wikipedia:chief financial officer|chief financial officer]] (CFO).<ref name="KBattles">{{Cite web|url=https://kellybattles.quora.com/Joining-Quora-as-CFO|title=Joining Quora as CFO - Kelly Battles' Posts - Quora|website=kellybattles.quora.com|language=en|access-date=2017-02-25}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=2016-11-26|year=|title=Foundation trustee to join Quora as finance officer|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-11-04/News_and_notes&oldid=751604760#Foundation_trustee_to_join_Quora_as_finance_officer|journal=[[wikipedia:The Signpost|The Signpost]]|language=en|volume=|pages=|via=}}</ref>|-| 2017 || February 10 || Product || Quora announces major changes to how anonymity works on the site. Anonymous answers would now be delinked from the user's main account, and anonymous users would now be able to only post questions and answers and not take other actions like upvote, comment, merge questions, suggest edits, etc. Previously anonymous answers would stay up, but get delinked (users would receive an email with the anonymous edit links for their anonymous answers). Anonymous content would also be reviewed now before being circulated widely.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://productupdates.quora.com/Upcoming-Changes-to-Anonymity-on-Quora|title = Upcoming Changes to Anonymity on Quora|last = Patterson|first = Riley|date = February 10, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Quora}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/10/qa-site-quora-clamps-down-on-anonymity-will-review-content-before-publishing-restricts-actions/|title = Q&A site Quora clamps down on anonymity – will review content before publishing, restrict actions|last = Perez|first = Sarah|date = February 10, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = ''TechCrunch''}}</ref>|-| 2017 || April 21 || Funding || Quora raises $85 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, double of its Series C valuation of $900 million (where it raised $80 million). The increased valuation is attributed to hitting userbase growth goals (almost doubling from 100 million to 190 million). Investors include Sam Altman and YC Continuity, Collaborative Fund, Tiger Global, and Dustin Moskovitz.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/|title = Q&A app Quora valued around $1.8 billion in $85 million fundraise|last = Constine|first = Josh|date = April 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://crunchbase.com/funding_round/quora-series-d--fdd54820|title = Series D - Quora|date = April 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = CrunchBase}}</ref> The funding would help the company expand internationally and develop its ad business.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/21/quora-raises-85-million-to-expand-internationally-and-develop-its-ads-business/|title = Quora raises $85 million to expand internationally and develop its ads business|last = Magistretti|first = Bérénice|date = April 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = VentureBeat}}</ref>|-| 2017 || May 22 || Product || Quora tests video answers.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/22/quora-video/|title = Quora tests video answers to steal Q&A from YouTube|date = May 22, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = TechCrunch|last = Constine|first = Josh}}</ref>|-| 2017 || May 23 || Advertising || Quora launches a self-serve ad platform. Previously, advertising on Quora was open only to a small number of select partners.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/23/quora-just-launched-a-self-serve-ad-platform/|title = Quora just launched a self-serve ad platform|last = Tepper|first = Fitz|date = May 23, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = TechCrunch}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.clixmarketing.com/blog/2017/06/29/5-things-you-should-know-about-quora-ads/|title = 5 Things You Should Know About Quora Ads|date = June 29, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Clix Marketing}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://zatomarketing.com/blog/quora-ads/|title = Pros and Cons of Quora Ads – A 90 Day Look|date = June 15, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|last = Halloran|first = Tim}}</ref> Initial advertiser feedback praises the interface and the cost-effectiveness but asks for larger reach and more granular targeting options.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://marketingland.com/what-performance-advertisers-saying-quora-ad-platform-220261|title = Here’s what performance advertisers are saying about Quora’s new ad platform. Whether they've been on the platform for one month or seven, advertiser feedback is strikingly similar: We like the performance -- when can we scale?|last = Marvin|first = Ginny|date = July 21, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Marketing Land}}</ref>|-| 2017 || August 17 || Advertising || Quora announces support for website retargeting on its ad platform. To avail of this, advertisers would need to install the Quora Conversion Pixel on their site (for Quora to know if a user visited their site).<ref>{{cite web|url = https://business.quora.com/Announcing-Retargeting-on-the-Quora-Ads-Platform|title = Announcing Retargeting on the Quora Ads Platform|last = Browne|first = Ryan|date = August 17, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = Quora}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://marketingland.com/quora-launches-retargeting-advertisers-222131|title = Quora launches retargeting for advertisers. Advertisers can build audience lists and create ads targeted to segments of past site visitors.|last = Marvin|first = Ginny|date = August 17, 2017|accessdate = November 5, 2017|publisher = MarketingLand}}</ref>