Adam D'Angelo
Adam D'Angelo is an American internet entrepreneur who serves as the co-founder and CEO of Quora, the question-and-answer platform he established in 2009 with former Facebook engineer Charlie Cheever. He is best known as the first chief technology officer of Facebook, a role he held from 2006 to 2008, and for his current position on the board of directors of OpenAI. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the California Institute of Technology and has been an early investor in several technology companies including Instagram and Asana.
“Daytona, a three-year-old San Francisco startup that provides secure cloud computing environments for AI agents to run code, use software, and complete tasks, raised a $60 million Series B round at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by FirstMark, with Patrick Collison, Adam D'Angelo, Brendan Foody, Tobi Lütke, Olivier Pomel, Aravind Srinivas, Eric Yuan...”
Source→“The Academy has raised $42 million from a16z and a group of individual investors, including Adam D'Angelo, Tobi Lütke, Tony Xu, Fidji Simo, Garry Tan, Joe Liemandt and Shyam Sankar.”
“The Academy is designed to become a profitable business... The $40M raise was deliberately sized for multi-year runway... Named angel investors in the $40M Academy round.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.