Founder Profile
Tony Xu
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Tony Xu?
Tony Xu is a founder of DoorDash, Inc., which was founded in 2013 with Stanley Tang, Andy Fang and Evan Moore.
- Company founded
- DoorDash, Inc.
- Founded
- 2013
- Co-founders
- Stanley Tang, Andy Fang and Evan Moore
Background
Born in Nanjing, China, Tony Xu moved to the United States as a child and grew up in Champaign, Illinois, where he helped in the restaurant where his mother worked. He studied at UC Berkeley and earned an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Founding Story
Tony Xu co-founded DoorDash in 2013 and has been CEO since the start; he is also chair of the board. He led the company's suburban expansion strategy, its December 2020 NASDAQ IPO, the Caviar, Wolt, SevenRooms and Deliveroo acquisitions, and its shift to GAAP profitability in 2024. He joined the board of Meta Platforms in 2022. Tony Xu was born in 1984.