Startup Grind Milano hosts Adam D'Angelo, Founder & CEO of Quora
Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It’s a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers. This empowers people to learn from each other and to better understand the world.
In the past year Quora has expanded to Spanish and French and is currently in beta in Italian and German.
Quora is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.
Adam raised $226M at an evaluation of $900M with investors of the caliber of Peter Thiel, Y Combinator & Dustin Moskovitz. He was Chief Technology Officer at Facebook until 2008.
Adam is an angel investor in Instagram, Asana, CodeFights, SafeGraph and many others.
QUORA
Adam D'Angelo is the co-founder and CEO of Quora, the Q&A platform that empowers people to share and grow the world's knowledge. Since 2009, Quora has grown serve over 200 million monthly unique visitors from around the world. 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 s…
Adam D'Angelo is the co-founder and CEO of Quora, the Q&A platform that empowers people to share and grow the world's knowledge. Since 2009, Quora has grown serve over 200 million monthly unique visitors from around the world. 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 and started the company's growth team. Prior to serving as CTO, he led the Facebook Platform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed and the first generation of the company's advertising targeting and delivery systems. Adam holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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