In 2002, Adam D’Angelo attended the California Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science. While attending college, D’Angelo created the website BuddyZoo, which allowed users to upload their AIM buddy list and compare them with those of other users.
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Adam D’Angelo joined Facebook in 2004 as its first CTO and vice president of engineering. He was responsible for new product development and managed the engineering team.
In 2008, Adam D’Angelo left Facebook to start Quora, a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, and edited by Internet users in the form of opinions.
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D’Angelo is also a member of the board of directors of OpenAI which he joined in 2018. In 2005, Adam D’Angelo was one of the top 24 finalists in the Algorithm Coding Competition of the Topcoder Collegiate Challenge.
D’Angelo was an advisor to and investor in Instagram before its acquisition by Facebook in 2012. Fortune magazine included D’Angelo as runner-up in its “Smartest people in tech” article in 2010.


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