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Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo is an entrepreneur and computer scientist.

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Email Address
adam.dangelo@quora.com
CEO of
Quora
Quora
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Founder of
Quora
Quora
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Birthdate
1984
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Birthplace
Connecticut
Connecticut
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Nationality
United States
United States
Location
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California
United States
United States
Educated at
Phillips Exeter Academy
Phillips Exeter Academy
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California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
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Joel Barlow High School
Joel Barlow High School
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Awards Received
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2012 Forbes 30 Under 30
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2014 Forbes 30 Under 30
Occupation
Businessperson
Businessperson
Investor
Investor
Invested in
Wealthfront
Wealthfront
Quora
Quora
Blade
Blade
RankScience
RankScience
Asana
Asana
Shopular
Shopular
Headspin (company)
Headspin (company)
PlanetScale
PlanetScale
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Country
United States
United States
Citizenship
United States
United States
Member of Board of Directors of
OpenAI
OpenAI
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Asana
Asana
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Pitchbook URL
pitchbook.com/profiles...106497-73
Wikidata ID
Q4208213
Overview

Adam D'Angelo is the cofounder and CEO of Quora. D'Angelo was also the chief technology officer (CTO) of Facebook until 2008, and a year afterward, he founded Quora with Charlie Cheever. He is also an individual investor who has been active since 2017.

Background

D'Angelo started programming as a hobby when he was in junior high school, and when he attended high school at Philip Exeter Academy, he met Mark Zuckerberg. During their period as students there, he and Zuckerberg created a music recommendation plugin for the music player WinAmp, called Synapse, which received up to a $2 million purchase offer from companies such as America Online, WinAmp, and Microsoft. As a student, D'Angelo also won a silver medal during the 2002 International Olympiad in Informatics. In the same year, he started studying for his bachelor's degree at the California Institute of Technology in computer science and earned his degree in 2006.

Career

While still attending college, D'Angelo cofounded Wirehog, alongside Zuckerberg and Andrew K. McCollum in 2004. Wirehog was a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing website developed as a spinoff of Facebook's features and was available for use until 2006.

Given D'Angelo's connection to Zuckerberg, he was also involved with Facebook beginning in 2004, and from 2006 until 2008, he was CTO of the company. After leaving Facebook, D'Angelo founded Quora in 2009, a website where users can ask questions and get answers from their peers. In addition to founding the company, he has also been its CEO since its inception. D'Angelo has worked to expand the company, which was valued at $2 billion in 2019.

Board roles

D'Angelo is a board member of several other startup companies. One of those companies is Asana, where he has been a member of the board of directors since December 2008. In 2018, D'Angelo joined the board of directors at OpenAI. When there was a leadership reconfiguration at the company in November 2023, D'Angelo was part of the board that declared that it no longer had confidence in OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, and declared that Altman had departed the company.

Several days later, after negotiations in private, Altman returned as CEO of OpenAI, and the entire board of directors was replaced, except for D'Angelo. It is reported that D'Angelo retained his position on the board as he acted as a mediator for the return of Altman.

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