PeopleofSuperintelligence

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Adam D'Angelo

Adam D’Angelo is a technology founder who helped build Poe, Quora’s platform for trying AI models and making chatbots. After earning a computer-science degree at Caltech, he became Facebook’s CTO and co-founded Quora with Charlie Cheever. At Quora, he began using AI to rank the feed in 2011 and joined OpenAI’s board in 2018. As of October 2026, he is Quora’s CEO and serves on OpenAI’s board.

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OpenAI and Quora
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Timeline

  1. 2002–2006

    A Caltech computer science degree

    From 2002 to 2006, he studies at Caltech and earns a bachelor's degree in computer science.

  2. 2006–2008

    Facebook chief technology officer

    He serves as Facebook's chief technology officer from 2006 to 2008, then leaves in 2008 to start Quora.

  3. 2009

    Founding Quora

    In 2009, he co-founds Quora with Charlie Cheever as a question-and-answer service.

  4. 2011

    Using AI at Quora

    At Quora, he and his team begin using AI to rank the feed in 2011, a recommender-system task.

  5. 2018

    Joining OpenAI's board

    In 2018, he joins OpenAI's board as its research spans robotics, algorithms, machine learning, and language modeling.

  6. 2022

    Launching Poe

    In December 2022, he launches Poe within Quora as an AI platform that lets users build chatbots on large language models.

  7. 2023–2024

    Poe as an AI browser

    In 2023, he describes Poe as a browser for AI, a single place to try services from OpenAI and Anthropic. In 2024, Poe serves as a recommendation engine for models and apps built on them.

  8. As of October 2026

    Quora CEO and OpenAI director

    As of October 2026, he is Quora's CEO and serves on OpenAI's board.

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Career

  1. Since 2018OpenAIBoard Member
  2. Since 2009QuoraCo-founder, CEO
  3. 2006–2008MetaChief Technology Officer

Education

  1. 2006California Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s degree in Computer Science

From the biography.

  1. Google alumni founded or led 77 other organizations, the most among the labs we compareIncludes Adam D'Angelo. We trace 177 organizations founded or led by AI lab alumni, and 186 career moves between the labs.
  2. 11 of 71 people shaping AI with a former OpenAI role now work at AnthropicIncludes OpenAI. Our estimates of where OpenAI recruits came from and where people with former OpenAI roles work now.
  3. The median h-index is 55 at universities and 20 at frontier AI labsIncludes OpenAI. The median h-index is 55 at universities and 20 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, citations and moves to estimate how universities and frontier labs contribute to AI research.
  4. 44% of AI career moves go from one university to anotherIncludes OpenAI. We estimate how 11,906 AI career moves link universities, companies, labs and government research centers, with net flows and the most common paths.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Adam D'Angelo en.wikipedia.org. Checked 18 October 2026.
  2. The FriendFeedization Of Facebook Continues: Bret Taylor Promoted To CTO techcrunch.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  3. Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo on Poe becoming the web browser for AI semafor.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  4. Highlights from #GenSF featuring Adam D’Angelo lsvp.com. Checked 18 October 2026.
  5. Anthropic calienta la guerra de nombramientos estelares en los consejos frente a OpenAI cincodias.elpais.com. Checked 18 October 2026.