For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
I think that at the end of the day correcting misinformation and questioning what we think we know as a habit of mind is incredibly important.
Information's right at our fingertips, but so is what you want to believe. It's the classic thing of someone Googling 'autism vaccines' - they'll find what they're looking for, depending on what they think. You'll find lots of people who are just bolstering what they already think, bolstering their cultural attitude.
I've always been kind of an information sponge.
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.
You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization.
In the past, there hasn't been much reliable information about startups and small businesses available online. It's information that's really valuable, and it's information that people want to share.
The Internet is, among other things, a massive, chaotic marketplace. Too much information, it turns out, is a lot like no information.
