We only spent like five hours together before we decided to do Dropbox.” When Houston shared his idea for Dropbox with Ferdowsi, the two clicked. In 2007, he met fellow MIT student Drew Houston ( above, near left) through a mutual friend, Kyle Vogt, another Kansas City native and tech entrepreneur. We ordered the pieces for him and he assembled the hard drive.”Īfter graduating first in his class at Blue Valley Northwest, he left Kansas City to attend MIT, the school of his dreams, according to the Star. “I think he was 9 or 10 when he put his own computer together. “He was always interested in how they worked,” his mother, Tammy Ferdowsi, told the Star.
The path that got him there, Star reporter Eric Adler shared, started in his Kansas City childhood home with his interest in computers. Now in San Francisco, Ferdowsi is the co-founder and CTO of Dropbox. And a frustrated one, too, the Kansas City Star noted in its Saturday feature story on Ferdowsi. Kansas City native Arash Ferdowsi ( far left) may have a unique career path and success in the tech industry, but he still shares one thing in common with many in his hometown: he’s a huge Kansas City Chiefs fans.
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