This is the email circulating the Valley. The high profile venture capitalist's name has been redacted along with that of the recipient. February 1, 2013 [name redacted], Since you asked what I think about Quora and its latest pivot, here's my answer. It's probably far more than you expected but bear with me. From its early days the big question about this site has been "can an almost unlimited supply of Silicon Valley cash and hype turn a mediocre idea into a success?" The question certainly needs to be addressed again now that Quora has made yet another desperate business model pivot into a blogging platform. Before that Quora was going to be a Pinterest knock-off. Before that it was going to be a Q&A site to compete with Wikipedia. There have been one or two other lesser pivots that I have lost track of since 2009, but you get the picture. This executive team is clueless. It's really been no secret in the Valley that Quora's been a slow motion train wreck since pretty much 2010. The sole reason it's survived this long is due to the deep pockets of some of its founders. In a nutshell, a group of ex-Facebookers, who had cashed out, decided that more fast money could be made by starting a for-profit version of Wikipedia with the e nd game being to eventually IPO-it. However, any profit sharing would be limited to the founders and not the actual content creators. Quora's philosophy can be summed up as why should the serfs get a share if they we re dumb enough to work for free in the first place? This attitude leaves a bad taste in one's mouth. And so was launched what is perhaps the most arrog ant site in Internet history. Veteran observers could see as far back as 201 0 that it was going to have difficulty in justifying its existence considering the plethora of better communities and more focused re sources. Quora has always been a solution looking for a problem to latch itself onto. However, while Wikipedia has matured into a citable resource, at least for high-school assignments, Quora has only succeeded in cultivating an image as the place where chronic windbags and lime-light seekers hold court all day. So now we are all supposed to brace ourselves for the thundering stampede of bloggers as they desert WordPress and Typepad in order to contribute, for free, yet more content to Quora? As you asked, could this pivot just be the latest in a long list failures for Quora?