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Parag Agrawal (Hindi pronunciation: [pəˈɾaːɡ əɡɾəˈʋaːl]; born 21 May 1984) [2] is an Indian-born American software engineer and businessman who was the CEO of Twitter, Inc. from November 2021 to October 2022.
The deal was closed on October 28, with Musk immediately becoming Twitter's new owner and CEO. Twitter was taken private and merged into a new parent company named X Corp. Musk promptly fired several top executives, including previous CEO Parag Agrawal. Musk has since proposed several reforms to Twitter and laid off half of the company's ...
Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) [3] is an American businessperson, who is a co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Inc. from 2015 to 2021, as well as co-founder, principal executive officer and chairman of Block, Inc. (developer of the Square financial services platform).
Parag Agrawal updated his LinkedIn page with his AI startup's name: Parallel Web Systems. The ex-Twitter CEO raised about $30 million for the startup, The Information reported in January.
On November 29, 2021, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO. He was replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal. [177] [178] On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk closed a deal to purchase the company and fired Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel Sean Edgett. [73]
Along with Jack Dorsey, Stone holds the patent for inventing Twitter. [16]Stone has been honored with the International Center for Journalists Innovation Award, Inc. magazine named him Entrepreneur of the Decade, Time listed him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, [17] and GQ named him Nerd of the Year, along with Evan Williams. [18]
I came to the talk page for the same reason. As an avid wiki reader, this seemed jarring to put the firing in the lede. I don't see this in many other articles unless their firing was the result of a crime, etc. Wikipedia doesn't put when politicians are voted out in the lede, when people die, etc.
He became the new owner and CEO, took Twitter private, merged it into X Corp., and fired several top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal. [30] Following Twitter's change in ownership, Musk renamed several features to remove references to bird-oriented terminology, including renaming "Birdwatch" to "Community Notes".