The Millennium Semiconductor Survival Guide.

Chapter 95 What is Quora+
At this time, the importance of payment software is reflected.

"If we cooperate with NewPay, from negotiation to interface docking to functional testing, it will take a month or even longer even if we work overtime every day.

It is almost impossible to implement the paid question and answer function in a short period of time.

For other electronic payment software, they lack a standardized interface, and it takes longer to connect. said the person in charge of the technical department responsible for the Yahoo Answers community.

Jerry Yang scratched his head. He was very upset about this situation. He knew that it would be useless to invite 13 Nobel Prize winners, let alone 30 Nobel Prize winners, now that Yahoo Answers was launched.

There were originally 10, but 3 more were invited.

Quora is once again at the forefront. Paid Q&A seems to be just a function update, but in essence it is a subversion of the entire Internet industry.

Before Quora, there had never been an app that allowed ordinary people to make money just by using Internet services.

A model similar to Amazon and Ebay is equivalent to moving offline transactions online.

At this time, Google's advertising distribution model had not yet been born.

Therefore, Quora's paid questions and answers have a huge impact on Internet practitioners and even everyone.

Ordinary people can also benefit from it. If you become a big V, you can benefit from answering paid questions. If you are not a big V, you need to ask a sufficiently attractive question.

There is no such thing as a big V yet.

"We need to find a way to get ahead of Quora, rather than launch a feature on Quora like we do now, and we copy that feature to Yahoo Answers.

If it is a chaser, not only will we not be able to gain user recognition, but we will also be exhausted and fall into this vicious circle of catching up. said Kevin.

Yang Zhiyuan asked: "The problem is that there is no paid Q&A, and users will not want to use Yahoo Answers.

After the paid question and answer function is launched, ordinary Quora users can also ask questions, but their questions need to be answered before they can be seen by all users.

But users can also enjoy the benefits. Once they are answered, they will gain exposure and may obtain excess benefits.

Paying to ask questions on Quora becomes a matter of both risks and benefits, while answering is risk-free.

This further motivates Quora users to become well-known in the community and stimulates them to have more motivation to answer questions.

I also browse Quora myself. From my observation, after the paid question and answer function is launched, the number of answers on Quora is more than twice that of before.

Whether it is user activity or user loyalty, Yahoo cannot compare with Quora.

Now we can only follow the online paid question and answer function, and learn from Newman and Bill Gates to create momentum.

Of course, this does not mean that we need to do this all the time. Our product development team needs to develop enough distinctive functions.

We can't always copy Quora, we have to let Quora copy us. "

This will only be Yang Zhiyuan's own wish, and it will be difficult to realize.

The hottest question on Quora during this period is: "What do you think of Quora's paid question-and-answer function Quora+?"

In just one week, there were more than [-] responses.

"Simply put, I'm an idiot, I never thought I could play like this.

I like Quora very much, like the environment here, like the answerers and questioners here.

As a product manager, Quora can bring me a lot of inspiration. Professionals in different fields gather here, and everyone is generous with their experience and wisdom.

Before Yahoo Q&A was going online, I was very worried about Quora. I was worried that users would be attracted by Yahoo Q&A. The number of Quora users would decrease, the quality of answers would decline, and it would fall into a vicious circle.

I don't want my favorite online communities to fade away.Moreover, when Yahoo Answers advertised in various ways, Quora had no intention of counterattacking at all. I thought Quora had no good solution.

In the end, I was wrong. Newman deserves to be the greatest product manager in Silicon Valley. The paid Q&A function not only gave Yahoo a heavy blow, no one cares what Yahoo Q&A is, and no one wants to experience Yahoo Q&A.

At the same time, it also established the brand for Quora, not only Yahoo, but also other knowledge question-and-answer communities. If they want to enter this field, they all need to consider a question, that is, should they do paid questions and answers?
If it is done, NewPay is the only option for the entire electronic payment at present, and the user base of other electronic payments is far from enough.

And NewPay is also Newman's company, whether it will meet this need is a big question mark.

In addition, let’s talk about paid questions and answers separately, which makes it possible for ordinary users to make money on the Internet, and make money steadily.

I don't recommend that you pay to ask questions, because even if you ask a good question, it is completely unknown whether other users think it is a good question and are willing to pay to read the answer.

Unless you really have a question yourself and think the answer from the questionee can help you.For example, if you have questions about your professional field or questions about further education and employment, you need to ask experienced people. You can ask them.

Asking questions with the purpose of making money is entirely dependent on luck, and I don't recommend it.

So how to make money steadily?Become the main answerer of Quora, steadily output high-quality content, and let others ask you questions.

This is a stable income, and at the same time there is the possibility of making a fortune.

Even without Quora, you would still be posting opinions on the Internet, but with Quora, you can post opinions on the Internet, not only get attention, but also make money.

I know friends who are engaged in finance. Before the paid Q&A came out, they valued Quora at about one billion US dollars, and it was worth this price only after it went public.

After the paid question and answer came out, the valuation directly doubled to 20 billion US dollars, and as long as Newman was willing to start the angel round of financing, they were willing to invest unconditionally.

This is a top product manager, the best example of how much his ideas are worth. "

Zhou Xin himself also answered this question:
"People often praise me as the best product manager, but I don't think so myself, I just moved some common phenomena in life to the Internet.

Quora and paid questions and answers are such products.Some real-world questions will be answered for free, while others will only be answered if you pay.

The education that each of us receives from childhood to adulthood is actually a process of answering questions. This process requires tuition fees, and of course there is free education that costs less.

You can understand Quora as free education, and Quora+ as paid education.

We have no threshold on Quora+, everyone can use Quora+ to ask questions, and you can choose how much you are willing to pay, ranging from $20 to $100.

What product managers need to do is to realize the needs of real life through the Internet.The demands of the real world are difficult to convert without distortion. At the same time, some unreasonable demands need to be optimized into reasonable demands by the product manager. "

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