About
He joined the company in 2024 as GM and SVP of core products, arriving from Vimeo, where he was chief product officer, and earlier spent years at Amazon leading product and running the Freevee streaming service. His background also includes product leadership roles at Meta and Brightcove, and founding the startup PresAsk.
Co-CEO at DropboxYC S07
Intro paths
YC
Ashraf went through Y Combinator (Summer 2007) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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In turn, Ashraf can intro founders to Dropbox's investors below.
Dropbox's investors · 14
AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks · since 2014Altos VenturesBurlingame · $1M – $3M checks · since 2014BenchmarkSan Francisco · $100K – $30M checks · since 2014BlackRockNew York · since 2014Felicis VenturesSan Francisco · $500K – $15M checks · since 2014Garage CapitalWaterloo · since 2014Great Oaks Venture CapitalNew York · $50K – $500K checksGreylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks · since 2014Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2014RBC Capitalsince 2014RIT Capital PartnersLondon · since 2014SAV (Scale Asia Ventures)Palo Alto · since 2014Sequoia CapitalMenlo Park · $4.4M – $214M checks · since 2014Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2007
Co-founders at Dropbox
DH
Drew HoustonCo-Founder and Co-CEO
AF
Arash FerdowsiCo-founder & CTO
Experience
- Dropboxco-CEO of Dropboxcurrent2026 — presentSeattle, WA
- DropboxGM/SVP Dropbox Core Products2024 — 2026Seattle, WA
- VimeoChief Product Officer2022 — 2024
- AmazonDirector/GM Freevee2018 — 2022Greater Seattle Area
- PresAskFounder and CEO2013 — 2021Greater Boston Area
- MetaHead of Product2017 — 2018
- AmazonHead of Product - Amazon2013 — 2017greater seattle area
- BrightcoveVP of Product Management2011 — 2013Greater Boston Area
- NokiaSr. Product Manager2010 — 2011
- MotorolaSr. Product Manager2008 — 2010
- MotorolaLead Integration Engineer2005 — 2008
- Warren RECCStaff Engineer2004 — 2005
- Southern Illinois UniversityGraduate Assistant2004
- Free Lancer/SeveralWeb Developer1997 — 2002
Skills & more
IPTV23Mobile10Product Strategy9Streaming Media16Mobile Content4HTML51Web 2.01Online Video2Digital Video7Online Advertising7Video Analytics2Digital TV2
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Mobile ApplicationsWeb ApplicationsProduct ManagementProduct Life Cycle ManagementSoftware Product ManagementProduct LaunchesBusiness StrategyPricing StrategyMarket PricingLaunch Of New ProductsNew Business GenerationGrowing RevenueLanguages Arabic · English · French
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Ashraf Alkarmi?
- He joined the company in 2024 as GM and SVP of core products, arriving from Vimeo, where he was chief product officer, and earlier spent years at Amazon leading product and running the Freevee streaming service. His background also includes product leadership roles at Meta and Brightcove, and founding the startup PresAsk.
- Where does Ashraf Alkarmi work?
- Ashraf Alkarmi is Co-CEO at Dropbox.
- Where did Ashraf Alkarmi go to school?
- Ashraf Alkarmi studied at Harvard University (MA, Management and Operations); Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (MSc., Electrical Engineering); University of Jordan (Bsc., Electrical Engineering).
Same school
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Also attended Southern Illinois University, Carbondale15
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Also attended University of Jordan16
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Shared employers
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Danny RimerPartner at Index VenturesDrew HoustonCo-founder & CEO of DropboxArash FerdowsiCo-founder of DropboxQuentin ClarkInvestment Team at General CatalystAna AndreescuInvestor at Index VenturesMark GoldbergInvestor at Index Ventures
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Also worked at Amazon780
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Also worked at Meta345
Nat FriedmanCo-lead of Meta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDGDaniel GrossMeta Superintelligence Labs; co-founder of NFDG and Safe SuperintelligenceDrew HoustonCo-founder & CEO of DropboxGabriel PereyraCo-founder & President of HarveyTinaInvestments & Portfolio Services Team Member at Clear VenturesMike ArpaiaComputer scientist working on machine learning and data infrastructure
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Also worked at Brightcove16
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