Agarwal moved with his family to many countries: Cameroon, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand, eventually settling in the United States.
[5] After leaving Facebook, Agarwal and his wife Ruchi Sanghvi, co-founded Cove, a stealth collaboration startup.
[6][7] In October 2016, Agarwal was promoted from vice-president of engineering to chief technology officer (CTO), replacing co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.
[8][9][10] In July 2017, Agarwal announced in a Facebook post that he was leaving Dropbox, while expressing excitement about its trajectory.
[12] In 2019, Agarwal announced[13] that he is a senior advisor and Chair of the Technology Committee for the upcoming 2022 Fifa Football World Cup in Qatar.
[14] Agarwal was listed as one of the founders of FWD.us, a 501(c)(4) lobbying group formed in Silicon Valley to promote immigration reform, improve education, and facilitate technological breakthroughs in the United States.24 The group launched on 11 April 2013.25 He was also on the board of the Anita Borg Institute, the leading organization advocating for gender equality in the technology workforce.