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California Institute of Technology
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Adam D'Angelo

Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.

He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.

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.

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Company Date Round Size Participants
Wealthfront 3/13Series B$20M11
Quora 5/12Series B$50M3
Instagram 2/11Series A$7M5
Asana 4/09Angel$1.2M13

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  1. Wealthfront, The Investing Service That Has Made Me Money, Raises $20M From Index, Greylock and Social+Capital Partnership (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Quora Raises $50M At $400M From Peter Thiel, D’Angelo Puts In $20M Of His Own Money (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Instagram Raises $7M (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Asana (privco.com) [edit]
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