Adam D'Angelo | Quora

Adam D'Angelo attended the California Institute of Technology where he majored in computer science. He was the Chief Technology Officer at Facebook before co-founding Quora in June of 2009.

      

Chris Hughes | Facebook

image source: USV/Flickr Chris Hughes was born on November 26, 1983. He attended Harvard University where he along with college roommates Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz founded Facebook. During the 2008 presidential campaign he played a very integral role in developing the social networking aspect of Barack Obama's campaign on My.BarackObama.com.

 

 

Daniel Grippi | Diaspora

image credit: Henrik Moltke/FlickrDaniel Grippi is one of the co-founders of Diaspora, an open-source personal web server. Grippi developed Diaspora with co-founders Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer, and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. All students at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. The aim of Diaspora is to be a decentralized social network. Unlike Facebook, users set up their own server or "seed" to host content and seeds can then interact to share social data. The group received donations of over $200,000 via Kickstarter, an online threshold pledge funding system for funding creative projects. One of the contributers was from Mark Zuckerberg founder and CEO of Facebook.

 

Dustin Moskovitz | Facebook

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Dustin Moskovitz went to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Harvard University where he along with college roomates Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Hughes started Facebook.

 

Feross Aboukhadijeh | YouTube Instant

image credit: Feross Aboukhadijeh/ferros.orgFeross Aboukhadijeh is the creator of YouTube Instant (yinstant.com) that he launched on September 10, 2010. Youtube Instant, inspired by Google Instant, is a website that allows users to search the YouTube video database as they type. Ferross is currently a computer science student at Stanford University and a software engineer intern at Facebook.