Adam D’Angelo

Adam D’Angelo appears in Alexandr Wang on Scale and AI Data Infrastructure as a Quora executive who advised Alexandr Wang to attend at least some college after Wang’s gap-year work at Quora. The episode uses the advice to explain why Wang went to MIT before starting Scale AI through Y Combinator.

Sam Altman on YC, OpenAI, and the Meaning of Formidable adds D’Angelo as the board member Sam Altman says he mostly spoke with during the November 2023 OpenAI Board Crisis. Altman describes him as acting in good faith while also noting that D’Angelo was only one board vote.

Connections

• Quora - company context.
• Alexandr Wang - recipient of the college advice.
• Scale AI - later company founded after Wang’s MIT year.
• OpenAI, Sam Altman, and OpenAI Board Crisis - board-crisis context added by The Social Radars.