Meet Adam D'Angelo - CEO of Quora and former Facebook CTO!

Fireside Chat with Adam D'Angelo - CEO of Quora and former CTO of Facebook! The German Startups Association is proud to welcome Adam D'Angelo in Berlin! We are going to have a fireside chat with him, surrounding questions like: How to build a unicorn? What is the vision behind Quora? How does the Silicon Valley work? How important is networking for being successful? Besides, there will be time to talk about old times, the beginning of Facebook and Quora, as well as his personal motivation on getting up every morning, doing the things he does... Schedule: 5:30 - 6:00 pm Doors open 6:00 - 6:45 pm Fireside Chat moderated by Alexander Kölpin (WestTech Ventures) 6:45 - 7:15 pm Open AMA (Ask Me Anything) 7:15 - 8:00 pm Networking Tickets: Startups - 10€ VC´s, BA, Consultants, Others - 25€ Every purchased ticket includes 2 free beverages (beer, soft drinks). Get your ticket here: https://deutschestartups.org/index.php?id=442 About: Adam D'Angelo is the chief executive officer and co-founder of Quora. Based in Mountain View, California, Quora is an online knowledge-market which aims to make information sharing easier. D'Angelo graduated in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to Quora, he was chief technology officer at Facebook from the very beginning until 2008. In June 2009, Adam founded Quora with Charlie Cheever, another early Facebook employee. Quora is a question-and-answer site where questions are asked, answered, edited and organized by their community of users. Users can collaborate by editing questions and suggesting edits to other users' answers. Quora was reported to have received Series D funding in April 2017, giving it a valuation of $1.8 billion.