Adam D’Angelo Success Story: Inspiring Success Story of Quora Founder Adam D’Angelo

Adam D’Angelo is an American entrepreneur and internet personality best known as the co-founder and CEO of Quora, an online knowledge market-based in Mountain View, California.

Adam D’Angelo was born on August 21, 1984, in Palo Alto, California, United States of America. Adam D’Angelo attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school, where he developed the Synapse Media Player, a music suggestion software, along with Mark Zuckerberg and others.

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.

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.

In June 2009, Adam D’Angelo started Quora. He invested $20 million of his own money into Quora as part of their Series B round of financing. D’Angelo is also a member of the board of directors of OpenAI which he joined in 2018.