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> The remaining board holdouts who oppose Altman are Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo

There must be some interesting back story here. In 2014 Sam Altman accepted Quora into YC, controversially, since the company was at a much later stage than usual YC companies. At the time, Sam justified his decision by saying [0]:

> Adam D’Angelo is awesome, and we’re big Quora fans

So what happened?

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch



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