Arash Ferdowsi

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Arash Ferdowsi ( Persian آرش فردوسی, DMG Araš Firdausī ; Born October 7, 1985 in Overland Park / Metropolitan Kansas City ) is an American entrepreneur. He is one of the two founders of Dropbox .

Career

Ferdowsi is of Iranian descent, grew up in Kansas City , attended Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park until 2004, then studied at MIT and was about to graduate. With his partner Drew Houston , Ferdowsi founded Dropbox in 2007. In September 2007 the company moved to San Francisco , California (USA). Dropbox offers personal cloud and client software. Allegedly Ferdowsi and Houston are said to have rejected an offer from Steve Jobs in 2008 , who visited them and made them an offer of 800 million US dollars for the then still young start-up company. Dropbox is now valued between eight and 10 billion US dollars. Ferdowsi is less public than his partner Houston and there are few interviews with him. He was CTO until October 2016 .

capital

According to the US business magazine Forbes, Arash Ferdowsi has a fortune of around 500 million US dollars (as of December 2015) and is ranked 18th on the list of the richest Iranians .

Awards

  • Arash Ferdowsi landed in 2011 in the ranking The 40 talentiertesten and successful entrepreneurs and top managers under 40 years of Fortune magazine as the youngest in the list on the 29th place.
  • Arash Ferdowsi was named one of the top 30 founders under 30 by Inc. in 2011 .
  • Arash Ferdowsi and his partner Drew Houston received the TechCrunch Award for Founder of the Year in 2013

Reviews

  • Thomas Rappold Silicon Valley Investing - Invest in the superstars of today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow , FinanzBook Verlag München 2015, 1st edition, 240 pages, p. 124, ISBN 978-3-86248-702-8
  • Ura Fueglistaller, Christoph Müller, Susan Müller, Thierry Volery: Entrepreneurship - Models, Implementation, Perspectives - With case studies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland , Springer Gabler Wiesbaden 2016, 414 pages, ISBN 978-3-8349-4770-3 , p 107
  • Article in the Chicago Tribune

Videos

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entrepreneur.wiki: Arash Ferdowsi  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / entrepreneur.wiki  
  2. ↑ The Star spotlights Dropbox co-founder, KC native Arash Ferdowsi (siliconprairienews.com, February 11, 2013, accessed January 16, 2016)
  3. ↑ Executive Profile - Arash Ferdowsi: Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dropbox Inc. (bloomberg.com January 16, 2016, accessed January 16, 2016)
  4. ↑ Iranian of the Day ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (iranian.com, October 20, 2011, accessed January 16, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / iranian.com
  5. ↑ Dropbox co-founder, now multimillionaire, is Kansas native (Wichita Business Journal, February 11, 2013, accessed January 16, 2016)
  6. ↑ Local high school grad goes on to tech wealth (Kansas City Business Journal of February 11, 2013, accessed January 16, 2016)
  7. ↑ Enterprise Dropbox - Missing the mark? In: legacy.fime.ch from January 15, 2014, accessed on January 5, 2016
  8. ↑ Dropbox Founders Drew Houston '05 and Arash Ferdowsi '08 (eecs.mit.edu, Alumni, accessed January 16, 2016)
  9. ↑ Dropbox Is Under Siege - But It's Not Slowing Down (forbes.com July 29, 2015, accessed January 16, 2016)
  10. ↑ Cloud storage service: Dropbox brings for-Business-API (computerwoche.de from December 2, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2016)
  11. ↑ Has Dropbox declined a nine-digit Apple offer? In: netzwoche.ch of October 19, 2010, accessed on January 5, 2016
  12. ↑ Apple wanted to buy Dropbox In: heise.de from October 19, 2010, accessed on January 5, 2016
  13. ↑ Dropbox wants to be worth 8 billion ( memento of the original from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (t3n.de from November 20, 2013, accessed on January 16, 2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / t3n.de
  14. ↑ Dropbox is worth $ 10 billion (golem.de January 18, 2014, accessed January 16, 2016)
  15. ↑ How I Built It: Dropbox Seeks Big Solutions (wallstreet-journal, interview with Ferdowsi from March 14, 2012, accessed on January 16, 2016)
  16. ↑ Jordan Novet: Dropbox appoints new CTO, Aditya Agarwal, takes over for cofounder Arash Ferdowsi. In: venturebeat.com. October 14, 2016, accessed July 20, 2017 .
  17. ↑ The 25 Richest Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30: 8. Arash Ferdowsi, 26 (uk.complex.com, August 15, 2012, accessed January 16, 2016)
  18. ↑ The Richest Persian Men by net worth 2015 (boxnewsbox.com, accessed January 16, 2016)
  19. ↑ 40 Under 40: 29. Drew Houston & Arash Ferdowsi (fortune.com, October 25, 2011, accessed January 16, 2016)
  20. ↑ The most successful entrepreneurs under 40 In: bild.de of October 12, 2012, accessed on January 5, 2016
  21. ↑ a b Profile of Arash Ferdowsi at Computerhope (computerhope.com, accessed on January 16, 2016)
  22. ↑ 30under30: Profile of Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi (inc.com, accessed January 16, 2016)
  23. ^ Arash Ferdowsi, Drew Houston: Founders of the Year | Crunchies 2013 (youtube.com, accessed January 16, 2016)
  24. ↑ Silicon Valley Investing - Invest in the superstars of today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow In: books.google.de , accessed on January 5, 2016
  25. ↑ Entrepreneurship - Models, Implementation, Perspectives - With case studies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland In: books.google.de , accessed on January 5, 2016
  26. ↑ Article with keyword Arash Ferdowsi (articles.chicagotribune.com, accessed on January 16, 2016)
personal data
SURNAME Ferdowsi, Arash
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Overland Park