Adam D’Angelo

Founder & CEO, Quora

Adam D’Angelo is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Quora, an online knowledge market based in Mountain View, California. He was Chief Technology Officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering. Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the Facebook Platform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.