ARASH FERDOWSI

Arash Ferdowsi is an active angel investor and startup advisor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is best known as the co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Dropbox, which he launched in 2007 alongside classmate Drew Houston after dropping out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During his tenure as CTO from 2007 to 2020, Ferdowsi architected the initial product and scaled the cloud storage infrastructure to support hundreds of millions of users. He helped guide the Y Combinator-backed enterprise software company through its 2018 initial public offering, which resulted in an $11.2 billion valuation and established his estimated net worth at $1.1 billion. Today, Ferdowsi utilizes his extensive engineering and product scaling background to evaluate and fund early-stage technology startups across the cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and hardware sectors.