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George Kurtz

Net worth $10.7B

Security software · United States

Born
Oct 01, 1970
Age
55
Source
Security software
Residence
Paradise Valley, Arizona
Citizenship
United States
Marital status
Married
Children
2
Education
Bachelor of Science, Seton Hall University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • George Kurtz is cofounder and CEO of CrowdStrike, a cloud-based cybersecurity company based in Sunnyvale, California.
  • Kurtz cofounded the company with Dmitri Alperovitch in 2011and took it public in 2019.
  • When internal emails from the Democratic National Committee were leaked to the public in 2016, the DNC hired CrowdStrike to investigate the hack.
  • In July 2024, a bug in a CrowdStrike software updated set off an outage that grounded flights, took media outlets offline and disrupted companies worldwide.
  • Prior to CrowdStrike, Kurtz started security tech firm Foundstone in 1999, which was acquired by McAfee in 2004.
  • CrowdStrike recorded $3.95 billion in revenue in the year through January 31, 2025.

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