Quora, a question-posing website with only 14 employees and 200,000 monthly visitors as of September, is nevertheless one of the buzziest startups in Silicon Valley.Why? There are three answers. One, Quora is beloved by the digerati for being a smoking-fast site subtly skilled at sorting information from clutter. Two, its cofounders, Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, have the same provenance as Mark Zuckerberg (elite schools, Facebook, wicked smart with emergent social skills). Three, Quora questions attract serious people who know what they're talking about. An Olympics luge coach confessed that medals can wear smooth from too much showing off. A question about how much Netflix spends a year on postage was answered by Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings ("between $500 million and $600 million").
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