Andy Fang (born 1992) is a

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billionaire

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who co-founded the food delivery company

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. As of December 2020, ''

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'' estimated his net worth at $2.2 billion.

Early life and education

Fang was born in

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, as one of four children in a

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family. His parents were immigrants from

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. He grew up in the

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, where he excelled academically at the

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, graduating in 2010. Fang then attended

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and graduated with his

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(B.S.) degree in

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. As a freshman undergraduate, he was roommates with Stanley Tang, with whom he built a social calendar app, and met

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in an engineering and business course.

Career

While they were still students at Stanford, Fang, along with Stanley Tang and Tony Xu, founded

, a

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and

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platform, in 2013. When the company was founded, the three made DoorDash deliveries themselves. From May 2013 to February 2019, Fang was the company's chief technology officer (CTO). DoorDash was conceived and initiated in 2013 as a class project for a joint Engineering and Business school class. 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

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and the local Chinese restaurant." DoorDash had its

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in December 2020, making Fang's net worth an estimated $2.2 billion as of December 2020. As of March 2025, Fang owns approximately 4% DoorDash shares and also serves as its head of consumer engineering.

Personal life

Fang married Canadian professional tennis player

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on July 20, 2024, at the

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, Italy. They were both undergraduates at Stanford.

References

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