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In March 2010, Quora, Inc. was valued at $86 million (equivalent to $124 million in 2024).[6] Quora first became available to the public on August 11, 2009, and was praised for its interface and for the quality of the answers written by its users, many of whom were recognized as experts in their fields.[6]

Quora's user base increased quickly, and by late December 2010, the site was seeing spikes of visitors five to ten times its usual load—so much that the website initially had difficulties handling the increased traffic.[10]

In June 2011, Quora redesigned the navigation and usability of its website.[11] Co-founder Adam D'Angelo compared the redesigned Quora to Wikipedia, and stated that the changes to the website were made on the basis of what had worked and what had not when the website had experienced unprecedented growth six months earlier.[11]

In September 2012, co-founder Charlie Cheever stepped down as co-operator of the company, taking an advisory role.[12] D'Angelo then retained a high degree of control over the company.[3]