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Andy Fang

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DoorDash co-founder and director; Head of Consumer Engineering when the company went public in December 2020.

Identity and role

Andy Fang is one of the four co-founders of DoorDash and has sat on its board since May 2013. DoorDash's IPO prospectus, dated December 8, 2020, lists him as Head of Consumer Engineering and a director, age 28. He was the company's Chief Technology Officer from May 2013 to February 2019.

Biography / career arc

Fang holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University. A Harker Magazine alumni profile published in December 2018 says he graduated from Stanford in 2014, after the company, first called Palo Alto Delivery, had become DoorDash and been backed by Y Combinator. It says he helped deliver the first couple of hundred orders, and that he and Stanley Tang were named to Forbes' 2016 30 Under 30 list for consumer technology.

Business of Business, retelling the founders' own account in December 2020, reports that Tony Xu and Evan Moore brought Fang into the venture and that Fang brought in his classmate Tang. Palo Alto Delivery was a website with a Google Voice number and local restaurant menus that charged a $6 delivery fee.

At the IPO, Fang beneficially owned 13,511,765 shares of Class B common stock, counting options exercisable within 60 days of September 30, 2020. Before the offering, Xu, Fang and Tang signed a voting agreement that gives Xu an irrevocable proxy to vote Fang's and Tang's Class B shares. The prospectus says the three co-founders would together hold about 69% of the voting power after the offering.

Pandemic-relief / PPP-EIDL role

DoorDash was not a PPP borrower or lender; it sat between restaurants, consumers and Dashers, the couriers it classifies as independent contractors. Its December 2020 prospectus lists the company's pandemic measures: a 50% commission cut for local restaurants with five or fewer locations (about 180,000 restaurants in the United States, Canada and Australia, it says), no-contact delivery by default, safety equipment and some financial assistance for Dashers, and a possible $200 million Main Street Strong pledge funded from IPO proceeds.

The prospectus does not assign any of these programs to Fang.

Their own relief

Neither the SBA's public PPP loan-level data (September 30, 2024 release) nor the USAspending COVID-EIDL award files we searched list a loan to a borrower named Andy Fang. The PPP data show no loan to DoorDash, Inc.; the PPP borrower records that carry the DoorDash name are small loans to borrowers outside San Francisco, where the company has its headquarters.

No court filing, enforcement order or criminal charge in our archive names Fang. The legal proceedings DoorDash described in its December 2020 prospectus are company matters, including California lawsuits over whether Dashers are independent contractors or employees, with claims under the state's Private Attorneys General Act.

Where they are now (2025–2026)

The July 2026 version of a Wikipedia article says that as of March 2025 Fang owned about 4% of DoorDash and was its head of consumer engineering. It cites Forbes Australia for a December 2025 estimate of his net worth at $1.8 billion. We have no primary filing later than the 2020 prospectus that confirms his title.

Sources held in this archive

  • PUA Was Built to Be Uncheckable
  • The $400 Billion UI Number
  • Pandemic Unemployment Fraud: What the Final Numbers Actually Say
  • DoorDash — the company he co-founded.
  • Tony Xu — co-founder and chief executive; holds the voting proxy over Fang's Class B shares.
  • Stanley Tang — co-founder; Fang's Stanford classmate.
  • Evan Moore — co-founder.

Sources

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