Andy Fang

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Andy Fang
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Fang in 2022
Born1992 (age 3132)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Stanford University
Known forCo-founding DoorDash

Andy Fang (born 1992[ citation needed ]) is an American billionaire tech entrepreneur. He is best known as the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at DoorDash, [1] [2] which he started along with Stanley Tang, Tony Xu and Evan Moore in 2013. [3]

DoorDash was conceived and initiated in 2013 as a class project for a joint Engineering and Business school class. [4] Initially named PaloAltoDelivery.com, the founders perceived that most local small businesses had not solved how to deliver food. Fang says "when you tried to get food delivered in Palo Alto, back in 2013, it was really only Domino's and the local Chinese restaurant." [4] DoorDash had its IPO in December 2020, [5] [6] making Fang's net worth an estimated $2.2 billion as of December 2020. [7]

Personal life and education

Fang is the child of immigrants from Taiwan. [4] He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area where he attended The Harker School, graduating in 2010. [8] Fang has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. [9]

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