
Andy Fang
Co-founder of DoorDash, Head of LaunchPad
Andy Fang is one of the co-founders of DoorDash, which began in January 2013 as a Palo Alto restaurant delivery website run by Stanford students and joined Y Combinator that summer. He was its chief technology officer from 2013 to 2019, then led consumer engineering. Since November 2022 he has run LaunchPad, DoorDash's new software products team, and he has been a director since 2013.
- Now
- Head of LaunchPad, DoorDash1
- Co-founded
- DoorDash, 2013 (YC Summer 2013)3
- Board
- DoorDash director since May 20131
- Education
- B.S. Computer Science, Stanford1
Experience
Stanford University2011 – 2013
- CS106 Section LeaderSep 2011 – Jun 2013
Part of Stanford's CS198 section leader program.2
Facebook2011 – 2012
Education
Recognition
Award · Forbes5
Milestones
- With his co-founders, launches a website listing menus from local Palo Alto restaurants, the start of DoorDash8
- Becomes chief technology officer and a director of the company1
- DoorDash joins Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch3
- Finishes a bachelor's degree in computer science at Stanford2
- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in Consumer Technology (2015 list) with co-founder Stanley Tang5
- The company, incorporated as Palo Alto Delivery Inc., is renamed DoorDash, Inc.8
- Steps down as chief technology officer and later leads consumer engineering1
- Becomes Head of LaunchPad, DoorDash's new software products team1
- The Associated Press reports he makes DoorDash deliveries in San Francisco for at least an hour a month4
- Announces the DoorDash command-line tool, dd-cli, in limited beta, letting AI agents search stores and check out7