Parag Agrawal joined Twitter in October 2011 as an ads engineer. (FILE)
New Delhi:
Parag Agrawal, an IIT-Bombay graduate, has replaced Jack Dorsey as the new Twitter chief executive officer. Dorsey resigned this evening and the Board of Directors unanimously appointed chief technological officer Agrawal as CEO.
5 Things To Know About New Twitter CEO
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Parag Agrawal did his graduation from IIT-Bombay and PhD in computer science from Stanford University.
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He joined Twitter in October 2011 as an ads engineer and soon after held the title of the company’s ‘Distinguished Software Engineer’.
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Twitter appointed Parag Agrawal as its Chief Technology Officer in 2017.
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Before joining Twitter, he did research internships at AT&T, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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With his appointment as the company’s CEO, Mr Agrawal has joined the group of Indian-origin silicon valley CEOs which includes names like Sundar Pichai and Satya Nadella.
