Who is Parag Agrawal whom Elon Musk fired after acquiring Twitter?

Who is Parag Agrawal whom Elon Musk fired after acquiring Twitter?

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Highlights

  • After Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed ownership Twitter, he reportedly fired its CEO Parag Agrawal withal with some other top executives of the company.
  • Agrawal is a 38-year-old Indian American software engineer who joined Twitter in 2011.
  • He holds a bachelor’s stratum in technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Parag Agrawal would definitely be among the most searched Indians online today. Reportedly, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, immediately without acquiring Twitter, has fired Agrawal from the post of senior executive officer. Withal with Agrawal, Musk moreover sacked legal throne Vijaya Gadde and senior financial officer Ned Segal from their respective posts.

It should be noted that Musk recently had tweeted a video of himself walking in Twitter’s headquarters with a kitchen sink in his hand. He had captioned it, ‘Let that sink in’. Adding to the drama, Musk now has updated his Twitter account's unravelment to ‘Chief Twit’.

The US$44 billion deal has garnered a lot of sustentation today and so are the ones who have been impacted by the transaction. Parag Agrawal has been making rounds of news as reports say he has been fired from his role as CEO of Twitter.

Who is Parag Agrawal?

  • Parag Agrawal is a 38-year-old Indian American software engineer.
  • He was born in the state of Rajasthan, India and he got to study at the Atomic Energy Central School in Mumbai.
  • Parag Agrawal has completed bachelor’s in technology stratum from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
  • He had secured a silver medal at the IIT and was awarded the Young Alumni Achiever Award in 2019.
  • Parag later moved to the US to pursue a PhD in computer science at Stanford University.
  • He has held research internships at companies like Microsoft and Yahoo!.
  • Parag Agrawal had joined Twitter as a software engineer in 2011.
  • Parag Agarwal was promoted to the post of senior technology officer in October 2017.
  • In 2019, then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey spoken that Parag would lead the company’s Project Bluesky.
  • In 2021, Dorsey spoken that he is quitting the organisation and Parag Agrawal would replace him as the new CEO of Twitter.
  • Parag was recognised as the youngest CEO leading a Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) company.

In 2017, when Parag was promoted to the role of Twitter CTO, Jack Dorsey, in his official email to all Twitter employees, stated that without running a rigorous process, the workbench has elected Parag as he tightly understands the visitor and its needs.