Adam D'Angelo
American businessman (born 1984)
Adam D'Angelo (born August 14, 1984) is an American internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Quora, based in Mountain View, California, and as the first chief technology officer of Facebook (now Meta).2
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Born Aug 14, 1984.1
Companies
Early life and education
Adam D'Angelo was born on August 14, 1984, in Redding, Connecticut, United States. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school. While a student there, he developed the Synapse Media Player (a music suggestion program) with Exeter classmate Mark Zuckerberg and others.
From 2002 to 2006, D'Angelo attended the California Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a B.S. in computer science.
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Career
Occupation: businessperson.8
- Since 2009Worked at Quora4
- Until 2008Worked at Meta Platforms4
- Date not recordedFounded Quora5
- Date not recordedChief executive, Quora6
- Date not recordedBoard member, OpenAI7
In 2004, while attending college, D'Angelo created the website BuddyZoo, which allowed users to upload their AIM buddy list in order to compare with those of other users. BuddyZoo also generated network graphs based on these lists.
D'Angelo joined Facebook shortly after its launch in 2004, and was its chief technology officer (CTO) from 2006 to 2008, and vice president of engineering until 2008.
In June 2009, D'Angelo co-founded Quora with former Facebook software engineer, Charlie Cheever. In May 2012, he invested $20 million in Quora as part of the company's $50 million Series B round of financing.
D'Angelo was also an early investor in Instagram before its 2012 acquisition by Facebook, Asana, a work management platform, and Lunchclub, a networking platform using artificial intelligence.
In December 2022, Quora launched Poe, a standalone platform that lets users interact with multiple AI chatbots.
D'Angelo was an early advisor to Instagram prior to 2012.
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OpenAI
In 2018, he joined the board of directors of OpenAI. In November 2023, D'Angelo was one of four board members who voted to remove Sam Altman from his role as CEO of OpenAI. When Altman returned to OpenAI, the other three board members involved in Altman's ouster resigned. D'Angelo was the only of the six original board members who remained following Altman's return.
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