Adam D'Angelo

Adam D'Angelo is an American internet entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Quora (Mountain View, CA) and the first CTO of Facebook (2006-2008). Born 1984 in Redding, Connecticut, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Caltech (BS Computer Science, 2002-2006). As a high-school competitive programmer he won a silver medal at IOI 2002 for the USA and later competed in the ICPC World Finals and TopCoder. He co-founded Quora in 2009 with Charlie Cheever, and serves on the boards of OpenAI and Asana, leading Quora's AI push with the Poe chatbot platform.

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• Won IOI 2002 silver medal for the USA (rank 34/276, score 272/600) as a high-schooler at Phillips Exeter, an early elite competitive-programming signal predating Facebook and Quora.Aug 25, 2002
• First CTO of Facebook (2006-2008), hired after fellow Exeter classmate Mark Zuckerberg recruited him; left in 2008 and co-founded Quora in 2009.
• Sits on the boards of OpenAI and Asana, placing him at the center of the modern AI industry while running Quora.
• Extended competitive-programming career beyond IOI: ICPC World Finals 2004 silver (rank 7) and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge 2005 top-24 (handle 'dangelo').