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#31 Adam D'Angelo
- 2015 America's Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 Net Worth
- $600 Million
- Age
- 31
- Source Of Wealth
- Quora, Facebook, Self Made
- Residence
- Mountain View, CA
- Citizenship
- United States
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts / Science, California Institute of Technology
Adam D'Angelo on Forbes Lists
Adam D'Angelo is the co-founder and CEO of Quora, the question and answer site he started in 2009 with fellow former Facebook employee Charlie Cheever. The startup, now valued at $900 million, aims to make information sharing easier and thus grow the pool of knowledge available on the Internet. Before founding Quora, D'Angelo served as Facebook's first chief technology officer. He started working on the social media site in the summer of 2004, when its operations moved from Harvard to Palo Alto. His relationship with Zuckerberg dates back to their teenage days, when they met and became friends at top prep school Phillips Exeter Academy. More »
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