Alan Schaaf Quotes

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span.

By 2013, we had 200 million people using 'Instagram' every month and over 20 billion photos stored.

The content has to be good; medium doesn't matter to me.

Yahoo is all about content. Deep reservoirs of important content in many, many strong areas.

You can't throw money at the Internet to make it work - it really is all about the quality of the content.

I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.

We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.

Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

Premium content matters.

I think a lot of what the iPad app is going to be used for is just reading the best content on Quora. It really helps the whole system run because people who are writing answers can get this very wide distribution to a large audience of readers.

The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

'Instagram' is definitely becoming a new entertainment source for people day after day.

I saw podcast sites with all these fancy graphics. People don't care about that. They sign up for what I do.

MySpace is so much more about culture and about creativity and expression. So in other words, you go on MySpace and you can find music, and you can find video, and things about politics, and things like that.

In May of 2010, I joined Kevin Systrom, my co-founder, and we created 'Instagram', a mobile social network that today has over 15 million users.

The reason why I think Reddit is still around and some of our competitors are not is because we were really adamant about maintaining the integrity of the site.

I think Facebook has a lot of work to do to make sure people are seeing meaningful things and not garbage.

People forget that YouTube is the second-largest search site on the Web. It just tells you the power of how many people live on YouTube.