Adam D'Angelo was born on August 14, 1984 in Redding, Connecticut, United States.

There, he developed the Synapse Media Player (a music suggestion program) along with Mark Zuckerberg and others.

[7] Apart from Quora, his notable investments include Instagram before its acquisition by Facebook for $1 billion, Asana, a work management platform co-founded by Facebook co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, and Lunchclub, a networking platform using artificial intelligence.

D'Angelo retained his position making him the only one of the six board members on the eve of the ouster still in office.

Fortune magazine included D'Angelo as runner-up in its "Smartest people in tech" article in 2010.