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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:10:06 David Rosenthal Reid Hoffman joins the board of this new structure, along with Sam, Ilya, Greg Brockman, Adam D'Angelo, and Tasha McCauley.
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 53:14 David Rosenthal Remember the Zuckerberg story of he and Adam D'Angelo are coding up synapse and people want to buy it for a million dollars?
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 19:13 David Rosenthal Like, everybody here is gonna be just like the two of us, and that person is Adam D'Angelo, future CTO of Facebook.
- ▶ 19:27 David Rosenthal Mark and Adam ended up being, like, the only two kids who are really into computers in the class.
- ▶ 19:45 David Rosenthal Yes, I think in large part because of Mark and Adam, it's quite different these days.
- ▶ 20:10 David Rosenthal Mark and Adam are like, now we're going to build some software.
- ▶ 21:10 David Rosenthal And then inspiration hits and he calls up Adam
- ▶ 21:52 David Rosenthal It starts getting some adoption, and, um, a couple companies, including Winamp itself, reach out to Mark and Adam and are like, hey, do you want to come work here?
- ▶ 22:18 David Rosenthal Adam is going to go off to college at Caltech.
- ▶ 24:45 David Rosenthal Adam, meanwhile, of course, goes off to Caltech, you know, 3000 miles away in the opposite corner of the country.
- ▶ 24:50 Ben Gilbert Also, can I just say, how crazy is it that Adam D'Angelo would become
- ▶ 25:02 David Rosenthal Adam has a very different experience at Caltech.
- ▶ 25:19 David Rosenthal But for Adam at Caltech, he still finds time while he's there to keep working on these projects.
- ▶ 26:21 David Rosenthal So, BuddyZoo, pretty quickly in the months after Atom launches it, gets a couple 100,000 users.
- ▶ 26:36 David Rosenthal And Atom is like, whoa, okay, this is interesting.
- ▶ 26:59 Ben Gilbert This is the first time Adam, Mark, you know, particularly Adam in this case, is discovering a very different type of application that gets better as more people join it.
- ▶ 27:09 David Rosenthal Now, we say Adam, and Adam definitely built and launched it.
- ▶ 27:28 David Rosenthal So that summer, 2003, after their freshman year, Adam comes to Boston and gets an internship at the MIT Media Lab.
- ▶ 27:35 David Rosenthal He discovers this thing called Friendster, another social network out there, and Adam is like, whoa,
- ▶ 28:45 David Rosenthal Adam's like, oh, maybe that's sort of what we should be focusing on.
- ▶ 29:11 David Rosenthal So Adam's playing around with Friendster, and Friendster had this feature called Testimonials, which was kind of like a Facebook wall, but in the long run, one of the core problems with Friendster was it positioned itself as a social…
- ▶ 30:04 David Rosenthal So, Adam, while he's playing around with this, and he's telling Mark about it, he actually posts on Mark's Friendster profile a testimonial, and he says that, quote, Mark gets way too lucky, and he posted this in the summer of 2003.
- ▶ 30:21 David Rosenthal And Adam was telling me this story, and he was like, you know, I have thought about that post
- ▶ 31:05 David Rosenthal And specifically at this point in time, you know, what Adam talked about is, like, he was always looking around.
- ▶ 46:54 Ben Gilbert There's this great Quora post, which we should say, Adam D'Angelo, founder and CEO of Quora, after Facebook.
- ▶ 1:06:37 David Rosenthal Adam D'Angelo is gonna be spending the summer from Caltech.
- ▶ 1:29:55 David Rosenthal Adam D'Angelo does go back to Caltech and then through AIM, I guess, remotely helps collaborate with the company until he graduates and in 2006 and becomes CTO officially.
- ▶ 2:04:09 David Rosenthal Okay, Adam D'Angelo finally graduates from Caltech, joins Facebook full-time as CTO.
- ▶ 2:04:13 Ben Gilbert I love that Adam's our, like, second protagonist here.
- ▶ 2:04:24 David Rosenthal And, you know, I think here, part of the reason why Adam keeps coming into the story is he is a really, really great technologist.
- ▶ 2:04:46 David Rosenthal So before Adam joins full-time, the team was shipping new code to the website, like, at a high velocity relative to everybody else out there.
- ▶ 2:05:33 David Rosenthal And when Adam becomes officially a CTO, he's like, actually, we should
- ▶ 3:13:05 David Rosenthal Brett Taylor would become CTO when Adam D'Angelo left to go start Quora, and then when Facebook acquired FriendFeed, Brett became CTO.
- ▶ 5:58:26 unnamed speaker And it kind of goes back to Adam D'Angelo's Friendster testimonial about him being way too lucky, and then realizing it's not luck at all.
- ▶ 5:58:37 unnamed speaker And I think it is that, you know, as Adam was telling me as he's reflected on this,
- ▶ 6:20:45 David Rosenthal Yeah, a few from me to Adam D'Angelo, obviously Facebook's first CTO, Dan Rose, early partnerships at Facebook, and big, big final thank you that we owe to Chris Cox, Meta's chief product officer and leader of the entire family of apps…