Arash Ferdowsi is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on October 7, 1985 in Overland Park, Kansas, United States.
Arash Ferdowsi (Persian: آرش فردوسی , born October 7, 1985) is an Iranian-American billionaire entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Dropbox.
He attended Blue Valley Northwest High School, a public high school in Overland Park, graduating first in his class in 2004. 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.
Ferdowsi was born in Overland Park, Kansas, US on 7 October 1985, the son of Iranian immigrants Gholam Ferdowsi (b. 1950) and Tahmineh “Tammy” Faridazar (b. 1959). Ferdowsi’s father, a mortgage broker, is a native of Tabriz in northwestern Iran. His parents settled in the US following the 1979 Iranian Revolution, then met and married in 1984 while students at the University of Central Missouri and the University of Missouri–Kansas City, respectively.
