Experts Exchange

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Experts Exchange

Experts Exchange (EE) is a website for people in information technology (IT) related jobs to ask each other for tech help, primarily through the use of a question-and-answer (Q&A) forum and published technical articles.

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Available inEnglish
OwnerRandy Redberg
URLexperts-exchange.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationYes
Launched1996
Current statusActive
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History

Experts Exchange went live in October 1996. The first question asked was for a "Case sensitive Win31 HTML Editor".[1]

Experts Exchange went bankrupt in 2001[2] after venture capitalists moved the company to San Mateo, CA, and was brought back largely through the efforts of unpaid volunteers.[3]

Later, Austin Miller and Randy Redberg took ownership of Experts Exchange, and the company was made profitable again. Experts Exchange claims to have more than 3 million solutions.[4] Its users are mainly young to middle-aged males in the IT field.[5]

Marketing

Experts Exchange has marketed itself as "not unlike Stack Overflow or Quora," but with an emphasis on human Q&A and an encouragement to ask questions even if they've been asked before.[6]

Membership Model

Under their current model, Experts Exchange uses a hybrid of paid and free memberships. Users who participate and answer questions can become eligible for free membership known as "Expert Status" while other users can opt to pay for a membership and use the site solely for asking questions.

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