Adam D'Angelo (born August 21, 1984) is an
American internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of
Quora
Quora () is a social question-and-answer website based in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that ...
, based in
Mountain View, California
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains, it has a population of 82,376.
Mountain View was integral to the early history and growth of Silicon Valley, and is the ...
. He was
chief technology officer of
Facebook
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, and also served as its vice president of engineering, until 2008.
In June 2009, he started
Quora
Quora () is a social question-and-answer website based in Mountain View, California. It was founded on June 25, 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010. Users can collaborate by editing questions and commenting on answers that ...
.
He invested $20 million of his own money into Quora as part of their
Series B
A venture round is a type of funding round used for venture capital financing, by which startup companies obtain investment, generally from venture capitalists and other institutional investors. The availability of venture funding is among the ...
round of financing.
He is a member of the board of directors of
OpenAI
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence (AI) research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company conducts research in the field of AI with the stated goal of promo ...
.
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Education
Adam D'Angelo attended
Phillips Exeter Academy for high school. There, he developed the Synapse Media Player (a music suggestion software) along with
Mark Zuckerberg and others.
In 2002, he attended
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech or CIT)The university itself only spells its short form as "Caltech"; the institution considers other spellings such a"Cal Tech" and "CalTech" incorrect. The institute is also occasional ...
, where he graduated with a
B.S.
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University ...
in
Computer Science
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.
In 2004, while attending college, D'Angelo also created the website BuddyZoo, which allowed users to upload their
AIM buddy list and compare them with those of other users. The service also generated graphs based on the buddy lists.
Honors
In 2001, he was placed eighth at the USA Computing Olympiad as a high school student and he won a silver medal at the 2002
International Olympiad in Informatics
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.
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC): California Institute of Technology Beavers (team of 3), World Finalists 2003, 2004; North American Champions 2003; World Finals Silver Medals 2004; World Finals co-coach 2005.
In 2005, he was one of the top 24 finalists in the Algorithm Coding Competition of the
Topcoder Collegiate Challenge.
Other work
D'Angelo was an advisor to and investor in
Instagram before its acquisition by Facebook in 2012.
In 2018, he joined the board of directors of OpenAI.
Achievements
''
Fortune'' magazine included D'Angelo as runner-up in its "Smartest people in tech" article in 2010.
References
External links
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Facebook employees
California Institute of Technology alumni
Living people
Businesspeople from California
Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
American chief technology officers
21st-century American businesspeople
American technology chief executives
1984 births
Competitive programmers
American people of Italian descent