Adam D’Angelo always loved technology. In 2002 he earned a silver medal at the International Olympiad in informatics. In school at Phillips Exeter Academy, Adam was friends with his fellow classmate Mark Zukerberg. They even built a Synapse Media Player. This and all his other experience pushed and influenced him to create Quora. Adam is a great problem solver as he found a way to highlight and fix a real-world solution to the internet, which is there isn’t always every answer on the web. Quora solves this by being an open forum where people ask all kinds of questions and get there very specific questions answered by others. A big thing is Adams ability to make his business focus more on needs rather than products. Adams passion and social network drove him to create Quora with his talks with Zuckerburg. He also wants to help others and help himself finding small communities around very specific problems or circumstances. His business model is with add revenue. It sold for its ability to rank users biased on how reliable they are and the ability to reach everyone around the world. It’s a worldwide forum with the idea that if you are having a problem someone else is having one. Adam demonstrates very innovative thinking by taking an already existing idea of making online forums, but he made it very niche. His niche was about reliability and solving problems. He used his environment as he was a CTO at Facebook and learned a lot about running a company allowed him to start his own. Adams best innovation was the use of strategic algorithms to create a formatted page for each user. This really let him stick out and it helped him achieve his niche of catering to specific issues people face or question. Adam is inspiring for his ability to focus on an issue that he holds dear to him and not care about the money but be product first. This is something to learn from as now you can focus on making your product perfect and innovative and you can capture your small niche and then worry about expanding and you don’t need to worry about going back to the drawing board as you already have a finished model.