Rank #305
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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