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Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo, and Steven Levy, 2011

Born1984/1985 (age 30–31)[1]EducationPhillips Exeter Academy ,California Institute of TechnologyOccupationco-founder of QuoraKnown forFormer CTO of FacebookNet worth US$680 million (Dec. 2014)

Adam D'Angelo is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Quora, an online knowledge market based inMountain View, California. He was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering.[2][3] He left Facebook in 2008. In June 2009, he started Quora with Charlie Cheever, another early Facebook employee.[4]

EducationEdit

Adam D'Angelo attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school. There, he developed the Synapse Media Player (a music suggestion software) along withMark Zuckerberg and others.[5]

Adam D’Angelo attended California Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree, BS in Computer Science. While in college, he was one of the top 24 finalists in the international Topcoder Collegiate Challenge. He also competed in theAssociation for Computing Machinery collegiate world programming contestas a member of California Institute of Technology team. His team won a silver medal in 2004 and got a title of North America champions in 2003.[6][7]

In 2003, 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.[5][8]

AchievementsEdit

In 2002, D’Angelo won a silver medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics.[9]

Fortune magazine included D'Angelo as runner-up in its 'Smartest people in tech' article.[1]

Reference

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo

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