Andy Fang

Fang grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated in 2010 from The Harker School in San Jose, California. There he excelled academically, served as student body president, performed in school musicals including “Music Man” and “Les Misérables,” and took an advanced computer science course in neural networks; he recalled that being part of the school musical was one of his most cherished times in high school because it was totally outside his comfort zone.⁠[1][2][2][2][2][2]

Fang at first did not want to attend Stanford University because it was so close to home, but his passion for computer science and his understanding that Silicon Valley was the hub of innovation and entrepreneurship led him to enroll there, where he met his future co-founders Stanley Tang and Tony Xu. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Stanford in 2014.⁠[2][1][2]

In early 2013, Fang, then still a Stanford computer science undergraduate, was deciding with Stanley Tang, Tony Xu, and Evan Moore what kind of company to start. While interviewing local merchants, they noticed that many shops had backlogs of orders they could not deliver, and decided to test whether a third party could make deliveries for merchants. One Saturday that February, the four built a prototype website called Palo Alto Delivery in an hour, uploading PDF menus from eight local restaurants and taking orders through a shared Google Voice phone number; 45 minutes after going live, they received their first order from a stranger, and they promptly drove to pick up the food and deliver it.⁠[3][3][3][3][3][3][3][3][3]

In the early days the service operated only on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Fang personally delivered the first couple of hundred orders on the platform.⁠[2]

From May 2013, Fang served as the company’s chief technology officer and joined its board of directors. Palo Alto Delivery was later renamed DoorDash and was backed by the startup accelerator Y Combinator, all before he graduated in 2014.⁠[4][4][2]

In December 2014, Fang, then 22, and Stanley Tang were named to the Forbes 2015 “30 Under 30” Consumer Technology list as co-founders of DoorDash.⁠[5][5]

By 2015, DoorDash had begun building a delivery dispatch system called Deep Red, named as an homage to the IBM chess computer that beat Garry Kasparov. Fang, then 23, said the team wanted it to do for local logistics what Deep Blue did in chess. The system collects data on a large number of predictors to estimate delivery times, works with partner apps to take into account conditions such as traffic and weather, and analyzes menus and ready times to determine which dishes take longer to prepare.⁠[3][3][3][3]

In 2018, Fang said that DoorDash’s vision from day one had been to build a last-mile logistics platform serving any local commerce use case; the company had until then mainly delivered restaurant food and was expanding into areas such as grocery through its partnership with Walmart.⁠[2][2]

In February 2019, Fang stepped down as chief technology officer and became Head of Consumer Engineering.⁠[4]

On December 9, 2020, DoorDash went public on the New York Stock Exchange at an initial public offering price of $102 per share, opened at $182 on its first day, and raised $3.37 billion in the IPO. Fang, then 28, was listed in the prospectus as Head of Consumer Engineering and Director. After the offering, the three co-founders, Fang, Tony Xu, and Stanley Tang, held all shares of Class B common stock, together accounting for about 69% of the company’s voting power; the three also entered into a voting agreement giving Xu the authority to vote the Class B shares held by Fang and Tang.⁠[4][4][6][6][4][4][4][4]

Since November 2022, Fang has served as head of LaunchPad, DoorDash’s new software products team.⁠[7][7]

As of April 2026, Fang remained a Class II director of DoorDash, with a term running until 2028. The board selected him because of the perspective and experience he brings as a co-founder. As of March 1, 2026, he held 5,903,889 shares of Class B common stock, about 24.1% of all Class B shares. He is compensated as an employee and receives no additional compensation as a director.⁠[7][7][7][7][7][7]

DoorDash: Official website: https://www.doordash.com/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]