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This is a timeline of Quora, a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, and organized by its community of users.

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Time period Development summary More details
2010–2011 " January of 2010 and January of 2011, Quora grew a whopping 37,000% in usership, giving the website around 160,000 users at the time."[1]
2012 "in 2012, Quora was valued at over $400 million."[1]
2013 "Quora reported 50 percent growth"[2] "Quora released a full-text search of questions and answers"[3] "In 2013, Quora launched a blogging feature, where anyone or writers can share their knowledge"[4]
2014 "In 2014, Quora joined the startup accelerator Y Combinator"[5] "In 2014 when it was drawing an $80 million funding from Tiger Global, Quora was valued at $900 million. "[3]
2015 "In 2015, Quora replaced the credit system with a new mechanic with “more” or “less” high authority for questions and answers in the news feed and expert appeals. This is a simpler system to understand, which automatically ranks all posts depending on several factors: the level of expertise of the author in the desired niche, user activity, the number of direct calls to the presenter or responder, and the like."[6]
2016 "The first ad that Quora had posted was from Uber in 2016"[3] "2016 Quora became a multilingual platform"[7] "Monetization on the site appeared only in 2016, when they introduced the opportunity to advertise goods and services of third-party resources. Since then, advertising has been the only way to monetize a project, except for the sale of personal data (which is not discussed openly, but everyone does it, especially if you have specific surnames with user names)."[6]
2017 Quora reaches 200 million unique visitors every month.[8] "Quora was valued at $1.8 billion following a funding round that raised $85 million"[9]
2018 Quora reaches 300 million unique visitors every month.[8][10]
2019 "But Silicon Valley now considers Quora — something of a relic of a quainter era on the internet — a $2 billion company, Recode has learned."[11]

Full timeline

Year Month and date (if available) Event type Details
2009 June 1 Product Quora is founded by ex-Facebook employees Adam D’Angelo and Charlie Cheever.
2010 January 4 Quora first launches in private beta.[12]
2010 March Funding Quora raises $11 million in a series A, with Benchmark Capital as an investor[13]
2010 June 21 Product Quora is first launched for user access.[3][14]
2010 September "Quora adds ability to insert images, no longer just a Q&A site."[15]
2011 January Team Marc Bodnick leaves Elevation Partners to join Quora[16]
2011 February Technology Quora chooses C++ over C for its high performance services[17]
2011 July Product Quora introduces video to its Q&A pages[18]
2011 July Product Quora introduces Credits for asking-to-answer questions[19]
2011 September Product Quora introduces threaded comments and comment voting.[20][21]
2012 May Funding Quora raises $50 million in a series B, with Peter Thiel and Adam D'Angelo as investors[13]
2012 September Team Co-founder Charlie Cheever leaves[22]
2012 November Product Quora introduces Top Writers program[23]
2013 January Product Quora introduces blogs[24]
2013 March Product Quora introduces a policy eliminating image-only answers.[25]
2014 April Funding Quora raises $80 million in a series C at $900 million valuation, with Tiger Global Management and Y Combinator as investors[13][26]
2015 November "Quora launches Writing Sessions as challenge to Reddit's Ask Me Anything"[27]
2016 January 27 Product Quora announces a bounty system, offering financial bounties for the best answer (selected by the question asker) on select questions.[28]
2016 March 30 Acquisitions Quora acquires Parlio, an online Q&A site started by Wael Ghonim.[29]
2016 April 20 Advertising Quora announces that it will start out testing advertisements, on a small number of question pages.[30]
2016 May 26 Team Marc Bodnick, Quora's public face and leader of its business and moderation team, announces that he is leaving the company.[31]
2016 June 26 "Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Quora account hacked"[32][33][34]
2016 August Product Quora announces support for the Spanish, its second language.[35][36][37]
2016 November Team Kelly Battles announced as new chief financial officer (CFO).[38][39]
2017 January Competition "Zhihu, a Quora clone, is now worth a billion dollars" "Quora, that Q&A site you used a few years back and then forgot about, is not having as much luck as its Chinese clone. Zhihu, launched two years after Quora, is now a start-up “unicorn” after it secured $100 million in series D funding."[40]
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.[41][42]
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.[43][44] The funding would help the company expand internationally and develop its ad business.[45]
2017 May 22 Product Quora tests video answers.[46]
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.[47][48][49] Initial advertiser feedback praises the interface and the cost-effectiveness but asks for larger reach and more granular targeting options.[50]
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).[51][52]
2017 October "Brainly raises $14 million for its Quora-for-kids education tech" "Brainly already has 10% of the market of kids in that age group, using the company's Quora-like service to help each other learn"[53]
2018 March "Quora’s ad pixel now supports multi-event conversion tracking"[54]
2018 March "Quora launches List Match Targeting for reaching audiences based on email lists"[55]
2018 May 22 "Quora, the Q&A platform, is expanding its advertising offerings with the launch of image ads. Announced Tuesday, the new format is available on mobile and desktop."[56][57]
2018 May "Quora launches in Hindi"[58]
2018 June "Quora launched a new version of its platform in Bahasa Indonesia"[59]
2018 September "Quora introduces Broad Targeting. Broad Targeting relies on machine learning to optimize ad delivery to reach users most likely to take the desired action."[8]
2018 September "By September 2018 Quora had 300 million unique users which still did not match the number of users visiting other common websites such as Facebook or Twitter which was roughly 326 million users"[3]
2018 December 3 Security "Quora says 100 million users hacked"[60][61][62][63] "In December 2018 there was a security breach that damaged 100 million users of Quora."[3]
2019 January "Quora adds search-like keyword targeting, Auction Insights for advertisers. Keyword targeting offers the intent targeting of search and can be more granular than topic targeting. Auction Insights offer competitive visibility."[64][65]
2019 January "Quora launches Bengali service"[66]
2019 April "Quora has announced the integration of the Quora Pixel with Google Tag Manager, streamlining the process of adding the Pixel to a website."[67]
2019 May "Quora Launches New Business Podcast, Google Tag Manager Integration" "Quora has announced a new integration with Google Tag Manager to help streamline its data tracking tools, while its also launching a new podcast which will focus on how businesses are using Quora's ad tools to reach engaged audiences."[68]
2019 May "in May 2019, it was valued to be $2 billion in a round of investors which counted to be $ 60 million sponsored mainly by Tesla and SpaceX. "[3]
2019 August "Quora this month integrated LiveRamp IdentityLink in Quora Ads Manager, enabling the advertisers to onboard people-based audiences."[69]
2019 October "Quora adds 3 new targeting options for advertisers" "Keyword history targeting. This is a blend of the existing keyword targeting and question retargeting options on Quora. You can reach people who have shown an interest in subjects related to your business based on the keywords you’re using. Your ads will target who have visited groups of question pages in a given time period, such as the past 20 days, for example. Ads display on users’ feeds, topic feeds, and question pages." "Gender targeting. If your company produces products designed specifically for men or women, this option can help you direct spend to your target customers. Quora also notes that some businesses may see improved results from messaging tailored to male and female audiences. Quora said that during the beta, some advertisers saw conversion rate lifts of up to 40% over campaigns without gender targeting. You’ll find this option located at the ad set-level under Demographic Targeting." "Browser targeting. Quora already offers the ability to target by device and mobile platforms, but now you can now target ad sets to specific desktop browsers, including Chrome, Safari and Firefox. This capability is ideal for software that is designed to be browser-specific, for example."[70]
2019 December "Quora is now available in Malayalam, Telugu, Gujarati and Kannada. The versions in these languages went live last week."[71]
2019 December "Quora launches Lead Gen Forms Ads"[72]
2020 January 1 A retired Palestinian American professor files a lawsuit against Quora at the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that she has been wrongfully banned from the website and accused of posting hate speech for her pro-Palestinian views and anti-Zionist views.[73]

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