He attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in the 1990s. Houston was born in Acton, Massachusetts in 1983.
Houston held 24.4 percent voting power in Dropbox before filing for IPO in February 2018. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $2.2 billion. t ən/ born March 4, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. "Dropbox's Cloud Storage Kings Drew Houston And Arash Ferdowsi Win Founder Of The Year Crunchie".
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Family įerdowsi is the son of Iranian immigrants Gholam Ferdowsi (b. Ferdowsi went on to study electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), dropping out of his program in his last year to focus on his business. He attended Blue Valley Northwest High School, a public high school in Overland Park, graduating first in his class in 2004. He is the co-founder of Dropbox.įerdowsi was born in Overland Park, Kansas, United States on 7 October 1985.
Arash Ferdowsi ( Persian: آرش فردوسی, born October 7, 1985) is an Iranian-American billionaire entrepreneur.
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