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.
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Adam D’Angelo was born 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 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.
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In 2001, Adam D’Angelo 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.
D’Angelo is also a member of the board of directors of OpenAI which he joined in 2018.
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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