The big suspect founder Rice

With the American question and answer website Quora Popular, Quora also has a group of followers at home. According to the source, in the rich micro-bo "push him" to open the public test soon after, Shanda will aim at online question and answer website, is a question and answer class website rice, direct PK Innovation Workshop under the knowledge.

According to the official introduction, rice is a new question-answering community, unlike some of the domestic professional questions and answers website so serious, the crowd positioning is very high, also not like the domestic Baidu know, Tianya know, such as a single number of questions and answers, can not form interactive. Rice network is mainly to create a simple and comfortable environment to help users as quickly as possible to ask questions, let friends to answer.

The question and answer website for Innovation Workshop Investment

From a functional perspective, rice and the recent Innovation Workshop investment in the question and answer site is very similar to the business model, content-led and provide a very different, know that the emphasis on the knowledge of the comb; Rice is like a question and answer version of the microblog, relaxed.

At present, rice and know both in the beta stage, online once rumors of Rice for the Grand founder. However, Shanda has not responded positively. Tencent technology from other sources learned that Rice is not for the grand operation, but by the Grand staff individual founder, has been developed for 2 months time.

Question and answer website rise

It is noteworthy that the knowledge and rice are imitation of the foreign question and answer website Quora, although Twitter and Facebook momentum, the information is very rich, but users want to benefit from the need to spend a period of time, which also gives Quora such sites brought opportunities. "Twitter is only fun for a small number of people, and Quora is useful to the majority. ”

Not only that, the question and answer website cost is very fast. According to foreign media reports, the question and answer website Stack has received 12 million U.S. dollars, employees only 30, stack revenue mainly from online advertising and to the corporate user fees.

For the domestic, the question and answer website has just started, but this does not affect the Innovation Workshop chairman Lee Kai-fu Li to this kind of website optimistic. Kai-Fu Lee once said to Tencent technology, question and answer is a field that has been doing for many years. User pursuit of knowledge, the pursuit of answers, may be the first to ask around friends, trust in friends and their own answer to the authority is a very direct link, so a social question and answer in foreign countries have been very good praise.

When it comes to why investment is known, Kai-Fu said that many of the existing social products, whether QQ or Weibo, are not particularly suitable to do questions and answers, so this brings the product space, see a lot of experts and celebrities to participate in, can be a better question and answer community. "It's a good opportunity for us to be very optimistic about this team." ”