Adam D'Angelo
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| Born | August 21, 1984 [1] |
| Education | Phillips Exeter Academy , California Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | co-founder of Quora |
| Known for | Former CTO of Facebook |
| Net worth |  US$600 million (2015)[2] |
Adam D'Angelo (born August 21, 1984) is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Quora, an online knowledge market based in Mountain View, California. He was formerly chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering.[3][4] He left Facebook in 2008. In June 2009, he started Quora with Charlie Cheever, another early Facebook employee.[5]
Education
Adam D'Angelo attended Phillips Exeter Academy for high school. There, he developed the Synapse Media Player (a music suggestion software) along with Mark Zuckerberg and others.[6]
Adam D’Angelo attended California Institute of Technology, where he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science.
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.[6][7]
Honors
In 2001, he placed eighth at the USA Computing Olympiad as a high school student and he got a silver medal at the International Olympiad of Informatics, 2002.
In 2004, while attending college, he competed in the Association for Computing Machinery collegiate world programming contest as a member of California Institute of Technology team and his team won the silver medal and earned the title for North America champions in 2003.[8][9] In 2005, he was one of the top 24 finalists in the Algorithm Coding Competition of the International Topcoder Collegiate Challenge.
Achievements
In 2002, D’Angelo won a silver medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics.[10]
Fortune magazine included D'Angelo as runner-up in its 'Smartest people in tech' article.[1]
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