As title. In terms of future growth, which one do you think is more promising?
Quora is soo far away from IPO, if that matters for you.
I thought Quora was dead
I doubt that!
Quora basically makes its money making people unhappy, like what FB is alleged to do x100. Pinterest because of their vision and search teams
Quora is a knowledge sharing platform more than it is a social media website
What is the point of quora? Or Pinterest for that matter 🤔
From IPO, perspective I totally agree. Both these companies have great possibility of being taken over.
Lol, what’s the point if Snapbook? For the context, I was at FB as well. Hate it !!! among many other who left after first cliff...
Definitely think Pinterest is infinitely closer to IPO than Quora. Much of the content on Quora is no longer relevant to an American audience, whereas numerous of my female friends swear by Pinterest.
^this
Pinterest and Quora are targeted at different groups of users and both of them can provide tremendous value to their users. As a male engineer, I personally feel Quora is more useful to me. It would certainly be great if I could work for Quora. But when choosing a job, you also want to rely on something more objective and measurable to make a decision.
Quora has a lot of fun and challenging work. I don't know anyone from Pinterest, but Quora engineers I know are all very smart. Also Pinterest is going to be rolled over by Instagram sooner or later. Quora at least seems to have a niche.
Great point on instagram copying Pinterest.
You obviously don’t use Pinterest much. It’s not a social network by any sense of the term. It could easily coexist with Instagram indefinitely. I don’t even follow my wife on Pinterest.
Search engines surface quora more than reddit
Quora is doing good. I talked to their CEO recently and had a chance to access some of their metrics, things I learned are really impressive. The two companies are at very different stages now. Quora just launched ads for about one year while Ads has been there for four years at Pinterest. Certainly Pinterest is closer to IPO. But Quora has a bigger potential to be 5x and you can make a larger impact at Quora as an engineer. So it depends on what you are looking for if you choose between them.
Why not switch over to Quora?
Need a good role for me to switch.
Pinterest is already making 500m in revenue, Quora hasn’t even started monetizing yet.
Quora actually started ads last year
And surprisingly Quora has been doing really well on revenue, heard from multiple sources. At the similiar stage 3-4 years ago, Pinterest really struggled on Ads.
Quora
Why quora?