“I’m a successful tech entrepreneur,” he said. “Of all the things he’s done for Dropbox, I know this is his proudest and most enduring contribution.”įerdowsi himself published a guest commentary in November in the Kansas City Star, his hometown newspaper. “Because of Arash, making work human will always be at the heart of our culture,” Houston added. But more than anything else, he will be remembered for “making Dropbox a place where people genuinely care about each other – where success is measured not just by what we achieve but how we achieve it,” said co-founder Houston in a March blog post on .įrom the very beginning, Houston said, Ferdowsi strived to hire a team of “humble, authentic, passionate people.”

In his 13 years at Dropbox, Ferdowsi wore many hats: he was the company’s first chief technology officer, and he led the recruiting and design teams. And Ferdowsi, who is reportedly worth $1.1 billion, has left the company - providing no indications on what he’ll do next. Thirteen years later, Dropbox is a public company worth close to $8 billion. Arash Ferdowsi is a pioneering Iranian-American entrepreneur who co-founded Dropbox –the cloud-based file-syncing service - in 2007 with Drew Houston, a fellow student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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