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Revision as of 16:37, 29 November 2021
Parag Agrawal | |
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| Born | 1975 or 1976 (age 47–48)[1] India |
| Education | IIT Bombay ((B.Tech.)) Stanford University (MS, PhD) |
| Title | CEO, Twitter |
| Term | November 2021– |
| Predecessor | Jack Dorsey |
Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American technology executive and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Twitter.
Education
Agrawal earned an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and a doctorate from Stanford University[2]
Career
In October 2018, Twitter announced the appointment of Agrawal as chief technology officer (CTO) following the leave of former Twitter CTO, Adam Massinger. Agrawal joined the company in October 2011 and held several positions at the company most recently including "Distinguished Software Engineer". Before joining Twitter, Parag held leadership positions at Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research.[3] According to Agrawal's biography on the Twitter leadership page, he is responsible for "Twitter’s technical strategy and overseeing machine learning and AI across the consumer, revenue, and science teams".[4]
In December 2019, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Agrawal would be in charge of Project Bluesky, "an independent team of open source architects, engineers and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media that would help better control abusive and misleading information on its platform".[5][6] On 29th November 2021, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that he would be resigning from Twitter and Agrawal will be the new CEO of the company.[7]
References
- ^ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/29/twitter-ceo-jack-dorsey-is-expected-to-step-down-sources-say.html
- ^ "TWTR Company Profile & Executives - Twitter Inc. - Wall Street Journal". www.wsj.com. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- ^ Novet, Jordan (2018-03-09). "Twitter taps distinguished engineer Parag Agrawal as new CTO". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- ^ "Twitter - Company". about.twitter.com. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- ^ Link, Indian (2019-12-12). "Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal to hire for ambitious project Bluesky". Indian Link. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- ^ Henshaw, Jon (2019-12-12). "Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announces Bluesky, an initiative to create a decentralized social media standard". Marketing & Technology News. Retrieved 2020-10-06.
- ^ Feiner, Lauren; Bursztynsky, Jessica (29 November 2021). "Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal will replace Jack Dorsey as CEO". CNBC. Retrieved 29 November 2021.