Adam D'Angelo: AI would be far more disruptive in a 1990s corporate landscape
Adam D'Angelo · Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI? · Nov 7, 2025 · at 35:20
Adam D'Angelo is the CEO of Quora. He argues that today's incumbent CEOs and public market investors have learned from past disruption cycles and adapt faster than 1990s incumbents.
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“I think if you had an environment more like we had in, say, like the nineties, I think this would actually be more disruptive than the current hyper, hyper competitive world that we're in now.”
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