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Experts Exchange

Available in

English

Owner

Randy Redberg

URL

[experts-exchange.com](http://experts-exchange.com/)

Commercial

Yes

Registration

Yes

Launched

1996

Current status

Active

**Experts Exchange** (**EE**) is a website for people in [information technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology "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.

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

Experts Exchange went bankrupt in 2001[\[2\]](#cite_note-2) after venture capitalists moved the company to [San Mateo, CA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Mateo,_CA "San Mateo, CA"), and was brought back largely through the efforts of unpaid volunteers.[\[3\]](#cite_note-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.[\[4\]](#cite_note-4)

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 have been asked before.[\[5\]](#cite_note-5)

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.

-   [Internet forum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum "Internet forum")
-   [Stack Exchange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange "Stack Exchange")
-   [Virtual community](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_community "Virtual community")

1.  [↑](#cite_ref-1) ["Case sensitivite Win31 HTML Editor"](https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/10000001/Case-sensitivite-Win31-HTML-Editor.html). Experts Exchange. 8 October 1996.
2.  [↑](#cite_ref-2) Young, Greg. ["Patterns aren't just for software. (Copy of Experts Exchange's newsletter on 2005/10/04)"](http://geekswithblogs.net/gyoung/articles/60933.aspx). Retrieved 24 February 2008.
3.  [↑](#cite_ref-3) ["Expert-Exchange's Topic"](http://www.experts-exchange.com/Community_Support/Input/Q_20462342.html#7754371). Experts-Exchange. 18 January 2003. Retrieved 12 February 2007.`{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web "Template:Cite web")}}`: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service "Category:CS1 maint: deprecated archival service"))
4.  [↑](#cite_ref-4) ["Experts-Exchange 3 million solutions"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110426152310/http://www.experts-exchange.com/threeMillionSolutions.jsp). Archived from [the original](http://www.experts-exchange.com/threeMillionSolutions.jsp) on 26 April 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
5.  [↑](#cite_ref-5) ["Experts-Exchange.com"](http://www.experts-exchange.com/). Retrieved 24 June 2024.

-   [Experts Exchange](http://www.experts-exchange.com/)